03714nam 2200673 450 991045243880332120200520144314.01-4426-9949-310.3138/9781442699496(CKB)2550000000106951(EBL)3280563(SSID)ssj0000736895(PQKBManifestationID)12280821(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000736895(PQKBWorkID)10781822(PQKB)11622302(CEL)438716(OCoLC)799730874(CaBNVSL)slc00229701(MiAaPQ)EBC3280563(MiAaPQ)EBC4673027(DE-B1597)483095(OCoLC)1004885766(DE-B1597)9781442699496(Au-PeEL)EBL4673027(CaPaEBR)ebr11258676(EXLCZ)99255000000010695120160926h20122012 uy 0engur|nu---|uu||txtccrCorporeal bonds the daughter-mother relationship in twentieth century Italian women's writing /Patrizia SambucoToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2012.©20121 online resource (224 p.)Toronto Italian Studies1-4426-4425-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Psychoanalytic Accounts of Sexual Difference: Luce Irigaray and Italian Feminism --2. Elsa Morante's Menzogna e sortilegio: The Incorporeal Bond --3. Francesca Sanvitale's Madre e figlia: Bodies of Pain and Imagination --4. Mariateresa Di Lascia's Passaggio in ombra: The Maternal as Expression of Desire and Corporeality --5. Elena Ferrante's L'amore molesto: The Renegotiation of the Mother's Body --6. Elena Stancanelli's Benzina: The Surreal Mother-Daughter Relationship and New Possibilities --Conclusion --Notes --Bibliography --IndexThe mother-daughter relationship is a popular theme in contemporary Italian writing but has never before been analysed in a comprehensive book-length study. In Corporeal Bonds, Patrizia Sambuco analyses novels by authors such as Elsa Morante, Francesca Sanvitale, Mariateresa Di Lascia, and Elena Ferrante, each of which is narrated from the daughter's point of view and depicts the daughter's bond with the mother. Highlighting the recurrent images throughout these works, Sambuco traces these back to alternative forms of communication between mother and daughter, as well as to the female body. Sambuco also explores the attempts of the daughter-narrators to define a female self that is outside the constrictions of patriarchal society. Through these investigations, Corporeal Bonds identifies a strong connection between the ideas of post-Lacanian critical theorists, Italian feminist thinkers, and the stories within the novels.Toronto Italian studies.Mothers and daughters in literatureItalian fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismItalian fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.Mothers and daughters in literature.Italian fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Italian fictionHistory and criticism.853/.91Sambuco Patrizia1965-991614MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452438803321Corporeal bonds2269434UNINA