LEADER 02953nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910463767403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61147-600-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000400594 035 $a(EBL)1315703 035 $a(OCoLC)853364732 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000918566 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12402365 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000918566 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10907865 035 $a(PQKB)11331990 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1315703 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1315703 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10734576 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL504741 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000400594 100 $a20130502d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRace and narrative in Italian women's writing since unification$b[electronic resource] /$fMelissa Coburn 210 $aMadison [N.J.] $cFairleigh Dickinson University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (163 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-299-73490-1 311 $a1-61147-599-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aGiven 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. 606 $aItalian literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aItalian literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRace in literature. 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric) 676 $a850.9/9287 700 $aCoburn$b Melissa$f1971-$0869568 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463767403321 996 $aRace and narrative in Italian women's writing since unification$91941400 997 $aUNINA