02953nam 2200589 a 450 991046376740332120200520144314.01-61147-600-3(CKB)2670000000400594(EBL)1315703(OCoLC)853364732(SSID)ssj0000918566(PQKBManifestationID)12402365(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000918566(PQKBWorkID)10907865(PQKB)11331990(MiAaPQ)EBC1315703(Au-PeEL)EBL1315703(CaPaEBR)ebr10734576(CaONFJC)MIL504741(EXLCZ)99267000000040059420130502d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRace and narrative in Italian women's writing since unification[electronic resource] /Melissa CoburnMadison [N.J.] Fairleigh Dickinson University Press20131 online resource (163 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-299-73490-1 1-61147-599-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Italian literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismRace in literatureNarration (Rhetoric)Electronic books.Italian literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Race in literature.Narration (Rhetoric)850.9/9287Coburn Melissa1971-869568MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463767403321Race and narrative in Italian women's writing since unification1941400UNINA