Public history, private stories : Italian women's autobiography / Graziella Parati.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parati, Graziella.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Italian prose literature.

Autobiography--Women authors.

Autobiography.

Public opinion in literature.

Women and literature--Italy.

Women and literature.

Privacy in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Parati examines the ways in which Italian women writers articulate their identities through autobiography-a public act that is also the creation of a private life. Considering autobiographical writings by five women writers from the seventeenth century to the present, Parati draws important connections between self-writing and the debate over women's roles, both traditional and transgressive.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE: Camilla Faà Gonzaga: Public and Private in a Woman's Autobiography; TWO: Speaking through Her Body: The Futurist Seduction of a Woman's Voice; THREE: From Genealogy to Gynealogy and Beyond: Fausta Cialente's Le quattro ragazze Wieselberger; FOUR: Rita Levi Montalcini's Perfect Imperfection: A Woman's Role in the Public Sphere; FIVE: Luisa Passerini's Autoritratto di gruppo: Personalizing Theory; CONCLUSION: Beyond Gynealogical Techniques: Writing Private History and Public Stories; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-188) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8648-3

OCLC:

476094094