03880nam 2200769 450 991078050750332120231206233546.01-4426-8502-610.3138/9781442685024(CKB)2430000000002131(EBL)4672377(SSID)ssj0000382778(PQKBManifestationID)11257313(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000382778(PQKBWorkID)10399753(PQKB)11767514(CaBNvSL)slc00222099(CaPaEBR)424344(DE-B1597)464086(OCoLC)1013947681(OCoLC)944177059(DE-B1597)9781442685024(Au-PeEL)EBL4672377(CaPaEBR)ebr11258046(OCoLC)958571936(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/4fskf0(MiAaPQ)EBC4672377(MiAaPQ)EBC3261290(EXLCZ)99243000000000213120160923h20072007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe tigress in the snow motherhood and literature in twentieth-century Italy /Laura Benedetti2nd ed.Toronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2007.©20071 online resource (177 p.)Toronto Italian StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4426-1086-7 0-8020-9744-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --Chapter 1. Mothers at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century --Chapter 2. Resilience and Resistance: The Fascist Years --Chapter 3. Questioning Motherhood --Chapter 4. Struggling with the Mother --Chapter 5. Mothers without Children --Notes --Works Cited --IndexThe Tigress in the Snow explores how literature reacted to, influenced, and shaped the evolving notion of motherhood in twentieth-century Italy. From the late-nineteenth century rhetorical celebration of the mother as Madonna, to the Fascist regime's demographic campaign and feminist revisions of the maternal role, Laura Benedetti shows how the mother's social status was a site of constant negotiation in Italy during the last century and how this negotiation came to be represented in literature. To illustrate her theme, she stresses both similarities and differences among four generations of women writers, as well as their complex interaction with their male counterparts, and their reactions to changes in Italian society. The Tigress in the Snow highlights literature's role in the formation of cultural discourses right up to the dawn of the twenty-first century. An intriguing look at the changing nature of motherhood in a country that has always valued the maternal institution, this volume goes further to show how literature investigates, shapes, and envisions social models for the present and future.Toronto Italian studies.Italian literature20th centuryHistory and criticismMotherhood in literatureMothers in literatureSocial change in literatureMotherhoodItalyHistory20th centuryItalian literatureHistory and criticism.Motherhood in literature.Mothers in literature.Social change in literature.MotherhoodHistory850.9/352520904Benedetti Laura221390MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780507503321The tigress in the snow3835649UNINA