Race and narrative in Italian women's writing since unification / Melissa Coburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coburn, Melissa, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Italian literature.

Race in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Given that race is a socio-historical and political construction, this work argues that race is also a narrative construction. Examining the construction of race in works by Italian authors since national unification (Deledda, Serao, Ginzburg and Ghermandi), the book finds certain elements to be common in both racial and narrative formations. These include intertextuality; characterization, plot, and tropes; the tension between the projections of identity as individual, group, and universal; and the processes of identification and otherness.

Contents:

Introduction: Race as narration: studies of Italian women's writings since unification

Grazia Deledda's narrative negotiations with the racialization of Sardinian character

The tropics of race in the land of Cockayne

The irreducible individual and the ethics of writing in Natalia Ginzburg's Lessico famigliare

"We are stories of stories in history": re-imagining community as narrative in Regina Di Fiori e di Perle by Gabriella Ghermandi

Conclusions: The persistent past: haunting as metaphor for racism in texts from Deledda to Ghermandi.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-61147-600-3

OCLC:

853364732