Race and narrative in Italian women's writing since unification [[electronic resource] /] / Melissa Coburn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787565103321
• Autore: Coburn Melissa <1971->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Madison [N.J.], : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 1-61147-600-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (163 p.)
• Disciplina: 850.9/9287
• Soggetti: Italian literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Race in literature; Narration (Rhetoric)
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.