1st Edition
Speculative Identities Contemporary Italian Women's Narrative
By Rita Wilson
Copyright 2000
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since the early 1980s, the novel has been deemed by many Italian women writers to be the most apt vehicle for creating positive images of the future of women. The novel becomes the space for confession, while at the same time allowing greater expressive freedom. There is no longer one voice for the "feminine role" and, by creating heroines who are also intellectuals, these authors offer their... Read more
Preface, Introduction, From Mythic Revisionism to the Limits of Realism: Anna Maria Ortese and Paola Capriolo, Searching for Reality: Francesca Sanvitale, Time and Remembrance: Rosetta Loy, Personal Histories: Fabrizia Ramondino, Contradictory Cultures: Edith Bruck and Giuliana Morandini, The Split Self or Female Creativity: Francesca Duranti, Seductive Specularities: Marta Morazzoni and Sandra Petrignani, Theory and Fictional Praxis: Elisabetta Rasy and Ginevra Bompiani, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Rita Wilson
