LEADER 04629nam 2200793 450 001 9910456808703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-8901-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442689015 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019342 035 $a(OCoLC)635459299 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10382052 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000478761 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11913446 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478761 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10435321 035 $a(PQKB)10288019 035 $a(CaPaEBR)430848 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00224389 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3268268 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672662 035 $a(DE-B1597)465351 035 $a(OCoLC)1013966719 035 $a(OCoLC)944176663 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442689015 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672662 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258318 035 $a(OCoLC)958572490 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019342 100 $a20160923h20082008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRewriting the journey in contemporary Italian literature $efigures of subjectivity in progress /$fCinzia Sartini Blum 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2008. 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (390 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Italian Studies 311 $a0-8020-9789-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1. Beyond the End of the Journey -- $tChapter 2. Gradiva's Journey: Genealogy of a Feminist Trope -- $tChapter 3. Biancamaria Frabotta's Lead: From fuga to viandanza -- $tChapter 4. Walking in the Shoes of Another: Dacia Maraini's Departures and Returns -- $tChapter 5. Exile as the Ultimate Utopia: Toni Maraini's vivere vagabondo -- $tChapter 6. Bridging Cultures: Figures of Mediation -- $tConclusion: Toward an Interactive Universalism -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex of Names 330 $aThe mobility of women is a central issue in feminist analysis of literary works and historical periods. Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature explores the concept of the journey from feminist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial perspectives, in order to offer an alternative understanding of "moving." Cinzia Sartini Blum examines the new literature of migration in Italian and journeys in the works of Biancamaria Frabotta, Dacia Maraini, Toni Maraini, and Maria Pace Ottieri, to demonstrate that women writers and migrant authors in contemporary Italy present journeys as events that are beyond heroic modern exploration and postmodern fragmentation.Using the mythical figure of Gradiva, Blum shows how contemporary Italian women writers have reinvented Gradiva to reveal subjectivities that challenge and overcome the postmodern melancholia and nihilism prevalent in contemporary male writers and thinkers. She also considers the connection between metaphorical and literal mobility, the role of the intellectual as cultural intermediary, the roles of women in cultural encounters within mass migrations, and how migrancy is a way of being in the postcolonial world.An impeccable piece of original scholarship, Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature will be of interest to feminist, literary, and postcolonial scholars. 410 0$aToronto Italian studies. 606 $aTravelers' writings, Italian$xHistory and criticism 606 $aItalian literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aItalian literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEmigration and immigration in literature 606 $aDisplacement (Psychology) in literature 606 $aTravel in literature 606 $aFeminism in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTravelers' writings, Italian$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aItalian literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aItalian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEmigration and immigration in literature. 615 0$aDisplacement (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aTravel in literature. 615 0$aFeminism in literature. 676 $a850.9/928709045 700 $aBlum$b Cinzia Sartini$0886761 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456808703321 996 $aRewriting the journey in contemporary Italian literature$91980426 997 $aUNINA