The pleasure of writing : critical essays on Dacia Maraini / edited by Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld and Ada Testaferri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Diaconescu-Blumenfeld, Rodica.

Testaferri, Ada.

Series:

Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 20.

Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maraini, Dacia--Criticism and interpretation.

Maraini, Dacia.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

ix, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, [2000]

Summary:

One of contemporary Italy's best-known writers, Dacia Maraini has often been a figure of controversy as author and as cultural critic. Though she is recipient of numerous literary awards, Maraini's work has not received the sustained critical attention commensurable with its stature. Working and creating "dalla parte delle donne" (on the side of women), she had been effectively excluded from the Italian critical canon. The Pleasure of Writing is opened with Maraini's own analysis of women's writing. There follow 14 essays by an international group of Italianists, utilizing a wide spectrum of interpretive perspectives, form semiotics to psychoanalysis, to treat the full range of Maraini's production as novelist, playwright, poet, and filmmaker.

Contents:

Part 1 Preliminaries

Reflections on the Logical and Illogical Bodies of My Sexual Compatriots / Dacia Maraini 21

Part 2 Demythicizing Genre: Issues of Representation and Language

De-tecting Voci / Ada Testaferri 41

Spatialized Gender and the Poetry of Dacia Maraini / Corrado Federici 61

Ecriture Feminine as Consciousness of the Condition of Women in Dacia Maraini's Early Narrative / Elisabetta Properzi Nelsen 77

Part 3 Poetics and Practices of Liberation

Symbolic Mediation and Female Community in Dacia Maraini's Fiction / Virginia Picchietti 103

Variations on a Theme: Violence against Women in the Writings of Dacia Maraini / Giovanna Bellesia 121

Dacia Maraini's "Barricade Theater" / Daniela Cavallaro 135

Part 4 Historiographies

A memoria: Charting a Cultural Map for Women's Transition from Preistoria to Storia / Giancarlo Lombardi 149

La lunga vita di Marianna Ucria: A Feminist Revisiting of the Eighteenth Century / Maria Ornella Marotti 165

Vocal Marginality: Dacia Maraini's Veronica Franco / Paola Caru 179

Part 5 Reclaiming the Body in the Construction of Subjectivity

Body as Will: Incarnate Voice in Dacia Maraini / Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld 195

Remembering What the Closed Eye Sees: Some Notes on Dacia Maraini's Postmodern Oresteia / Gabrielle Cody 215

Revolution in the Laundry / Pauline Dagnino 232

Toward a Poor Feminist Cinema: The Experimental Films of Dacia Maraini / Aine O'Healy 246.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1557531978

OCLC:

43060629