Across Genres, Generations and Borders: Italian Women Writing LivesSusanna 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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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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