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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788082003321

Titolo

Italian women writers, 1800-2000 : boundaries, borders, and transgression / / edited by Patrizia Sambuco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, [New Jersey] ; ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61147-792-1

1-61147-791-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Disciplina

850.9/9287

Soggetti

Italian literature - Women writers - History and criticism

Italian literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Italian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Women and literature - Italy

Women and 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Anna Hallamore Caesar: Confinement, and shifting boundaries in post-unification writing by women -- Catherine Ramsey-Portolano: Women writers confined: the case of Neera -- Cristina Gragnani and Ombretta Frau: Nineteenth century women writers between marginality and (aspirations of) inclusion: a puzzling balance -- Rhianedd Jewell: Sardinian confines in the works of Grazia Deledda -- Giuliana Morandini: Boundaries, the work of writing and the female soul -- Eleanor David: The dialogue with the dead in Patrizia Valduga's Requiem -- Anne Urbancic: Staging motherhood: considering Annie Vivanti's fact and fiction -- Margherita Ganeri: The shadow of the author in La storia -- Rita Wilson: Topographies of identity -- Simone Brioni: Across languages, cultures and nations: Ribka Sibhatu's Aulò -- Donatella De Ferra: The mediation of borders, in Greta Vidal by Antonella Sbuelz Carignani -- Patrizia Sambuco: Crossing boundaries and borders: Matilde Serao's travel writing.

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This book investigates narrative, autobiography, and



poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today and considers the topics of boundaries and borders in their writings. </span></span>