Public History, Private Stories : Italian Women's Autobiography

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Public History, Private Stories : Italian Women's Autobiography

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 232 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780816626069
  • DDC分類 850.9

基本説明

Explores the way Italian women writers craft identities through writing.

Full Description

Examining the ways in which Italian women articulate their identities through autobiography, this volume considers the work of five women writers from the 17th-century to the present day. It draws connections between self-writing and the debate over women's roles, both traditional and transgressive. This text includes discussion of the first prose autobiography written by an Italian woman - Camilla Faa Gonzaga's 1622 memoir as well as the autobiographies of Enif Robert, Fausta Cialente, Rita Levi Montalcini and Luisa Passerini. The author demonstrates the complex negotiations over identity contained within them, negotiations that challenge dichotomies between male and female, maternal and paternal, and private and public.

Contents

Camilla Faa Gonzaga - public and private in a woman's autobiography; speaking through her body - the futurist seduction of woman's voice; from genealogy to gynaelogy and beyond - Fausta Cialente's "Le quattro ragazze Wieselberger"; Rita Levi Montalcini's perfect imperfection - a woman's role in the public sphere; Luisa Passerini's "Autoritratto di gruppo" - personalizing theory; beyond gynealogical techniques - writing public stories and private history.