1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451823803321

Autore

Luciano Dana

Titolo

Arranging grief [[electronic resource] ] : sacred time and the body in nineteenth-century America / / Dana Luciano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8147-5340-X

0-8147-5233-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Collana

Sexual cultures

Disciplina

810.9/353

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Grief in literature

Time in literature

Sentimentalism in literature

Grief - Philosophy

Grief - Political aspects

Electronic books.

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. 321-337) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Tracking the tear -- Moments more concentrated than hours : grief and the textures of time -- Evocations : the romance of Indian lament -- Securing time : maternal melancholia and sentimental domesticity -- Slavery's ruins and the countermonumental impulse -- Representative mournfulness : nation and race in the time of Lincoln -- Coda : everyday grief.

Sommario/riassunto

2008 Winner, MLA First Book Prize. Charting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, Arranging Grief offers an innovative new view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Dana Luciano argues that the cultural plotting of grief provides a distinctive insight into the nineteenth-century American temporal imaginary, since grief both underwrote the social arrangements that supported the nation's standard chronologies and sponsored other ways of advancing history. Nineteenth-



2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002703239707536

Titolo

Il Naturalista siciliano : organo della Società Siciliana di Scienze Naturali / Società Siciliana di Scienze Naturali. - 1881-

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palermo, 1881-

ISSN

0394-0063

Altri autori (Enti)

Società Siciliana di Scienze Naturaliauthor

Soggetti

Natural history - Italy - Sicily - Periodicals

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962715503321

Autore

Beard Laura J. <1962->

Titolo

Acts of narrative resistance : women's autobiographical writings in the Americas / / Laura J. Beard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8139-3057-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

American literatures initiative

Disciplina

809/.933522

Soggetti

Autobiography - Women authors

Autobiography - Political aspects

Latin American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Latin American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Canadian prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Canadian prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Women - America - Biography - History and criticism

Women in literature

Biography as a literary form

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

"The American Literatures Initiative"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE: Addressing the Self: Autobiographical Metafiction""; ""1 The Mirrored Self: Helena Parente Cunha's Women between Mirrors""; ""2 The Self in Exile: Luisa Futoransky's Babelic Metatext""; ""PART TWO: From Self to Family to Nation: The Family Saga as an Autobiographical Genre""; ""3 Re-membering the Nation by Remembering the Family: Ana María Shua's The Book of Memories""; ""4 The Autobiographical Text as Memory Box: Nélida Piñon's The Republic of Dreams""

""PART THREE: Bearing Witness to the Self and the Community: Testimonial Works by Indigenous Women""""5 ""The Life of Bobbi Lee Is about Why We Must Talk"": Testimonial Literature as a Call to Action""; ""6 ""Part of Surviving Is through Remembering"": The Ethics and Politics of Life Narratives about Indian Residential School Experiences""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

This exploration of women's autobiographical writings in the Americas focuses on three specific genres: testimonio, metafiction, and the family saga as the story of a nation. What makes Laura J. Beard's work distinctive is her pairing of readings of life narratives by women from different countries and traditions. Her section on metafiction focuses on works by Helena Parente Cunha, of Brazil, and Luisa Futoranksy, of Argentina; the family sagas explored are by Ana María Shua and Nélida Piñon, of Argentina and Brazil, respectively; and the section on testimonio highlights narratives by Lee Maracle and Shirley Sterling, from different Indigenous nations in British Columbia. In these texts Beard terms "genres of resistance," women resist the cultural definitions imposed upon them in an effort to speak and name their own experiences. The author situates her work in the context of not only other feminist studies of women's autobiographies but also the continuing study of inter-American literature that is demanding more comparative and cross-cultural approaches.    Acts of Narrative Resistance addresses prominent issues in the fields of autobiography, comparative literature, and women's studies, and in inter-American, Latin American, and Native American studies.