Across Genres, Generations and Borders: Italian Women Writing Lives

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Susanna Scarparo, Rita Wilson
University of Delaware Press, 2004 - 228 pagine
This book examines the processes involved in writing the lives of women, both as autobiographies and as biographies. Some essays are theoretical discussions about the constructions of self-articulation in women's life writing. Others are more autobiographical, emphasizing the importance of self-articulation for creating possibilities for self-direction. Adopting different theoretical approaches, chapters in this collection highlight the connections between subjectivity and history, feminist concerns about mothering and the mother-daughter relationships, autobiography, discourse and its framing of the relationship between text and life, and the ethics of constructing biographies. The book is divided into three parts: the first part focuses on the process of writing lives as expressed but also contested in epistolary narratives, autobiography and historical fiction. The second part considers notions of female genealogy and the relationship with the maternal, both biological and symbolic. The third part comprises articles which deal with writing outside geographical and metaphorical borders.
 

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A Political Project in the Making
10
Across Genres
23
Epistolary Practices in NineteenthCentury Newspapers Manuals and Fiction
24
A Novel Almost an Autobiography1
38
Gender Revisionism in Elsa Morantes La Storia
56
Gender and Patriotism in Carla Capponis Con cuore di donna
70
Self Other and Irony in Clara Serenis Autobiographical Macrotext
86
Across Generations
101
Across Borders
139
Personal Experience and History in the Works of Helga Schneider and Helena Janeczek
140
Weaving the Italian WomanWriter into the Social Fabric
152
Imagining Homeland in Anna Maria DellOsos Autofictions
169
My Other My Self
183
Across the Nation
191
Lost in Transition
192
Contributors
210

Three Generations of Italian Women Writers
102
Fabrizia Ramondinos Althenopis
117

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