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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454957903321

Autore

Lazzaro-Weis Carol M. <1949->

Titolo

From margins to mainstream [[electronic resource] ] : feminism and fictional modes in Italian women's writing, 1968-1990 / / Carol Lazzaro-Weis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1993

ISBN

0-8122-0670-3

1-283-89684-2

0-585-12040-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Disciplina

853/.914099287

Soggetti

Italian fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Italian fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Women and literature - Italy - History - 20th century

Feminist fiction - History and criticism

Feminism and literature - Italy

Feminism in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-215) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Feminism and Its Literary Discontents -- Chapter 2. Separatism in Literature and Politics -- Chapter 3. From Confession to Romance -- Chapter 4. The Female Bildungsroman -- Chapter 5. The Historical Novel: History as Female Subjectivity -- Chapter 6. Cherchez la femme: Feminism and the Giallo -- Chapter 7. Mainstreaming -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Carol Lazzaro-Weiss studies the fiction of twenty-five contemporary Italian women writers. Arguing for a notion of gender and genre, she runs counter to many Anglo-American and French feminist theorists who contend that traditional genres cannot readily serve as vehicles for feminist expression.