Speculative identities : contemporary italian women's narrative / by Rita Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Rita, 1953- author.

Series:

Italian perspectives ; 3.

Italian Perspectives, 1464-1879 ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Italian prose literature.

Italian prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Women and literature--Italy--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2017].

Summary:

"Since the early 1980s, the novel has been deemed by many Italian women writers to be the most apt vehicle for creating positive images of the future of women. The novel becomes the space for confession, while at the same time allowing greater expressive freedom. There is no longer one voice for the ""feminine role"" and, by creating heroines who are also intellectuals, these authors offer their readers models of alternative versions of self. This study is a partial inventory of the new women's narrative and aims to provide a broad literary framework through which both the general reader and the student can appreciate the characteristics and innovations of contemporary Italian women's fiction. The writers chosen for this study (Ginerva Bompiani, Edith Bruck, Paola Capriolo, Francesca Duranti, Rosetta Loy, Giuliana Morandini, Marta Morazzoni, Anna Maria Ortese, Sandra Petrignanni, Fabrizia Ramondino, Elisabetta Rasy and Francesca Sanvitale) have achieved both critical acclaim and public recognition and their texts show the richness of voices, topics and structures in Italian women's writing today."

Contents:

chapter Introduction

chapter From Mythic Revisionism to the Limits of Realism: Anna Maria Ortese and Paola Capriolo

chapter Searching for Reality: Francesca Sanvitale

chapter Time and Remembrance: Rosetta Loy

chapter Personal Histories: Fabrizia Ramondino

chapter Contradictory Cultures: Edith Bruck and Giuliana Morandini

chapter The Split Self or Female Creativity: Francesca Duranti

chapter Seductive Specularities: Marta Morazzoni and Sandra Petrignani

chapter Theory and Fictional Praxis: Elisabetta Rasy and Ginevra Bompiani.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-19694-4

1-351-19695-2

1-351-19693-6

9781351196956

OCLC:

1011104422