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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784367403321

Autore

Parati Graziella

Titolo

Public history, private stories [[electronic resource] ] : Italian women's autobiography / / Graziella Parati

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1996

ISBN

0-8166-8648-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

850.9/9287

Soggetti

Italian prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Autobiography - Women authors

Public opinion in literature

Women and literature - Italy

Privacy in literature

Women in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.