| Italian Women Writers, 1800-2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression Contributor(s): Sambuco, Patrizia (Editor), Brioni, Simone (Contribution by), Caesar, Ann Hallamore (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1611477905 ISBN-13: 9781611477900 Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press OUR PRICE: $112.86 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - Italian - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 850.9 |
| LCCN: 2014035342 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.97 lbs) 198 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Italian Women Writers, 1800-2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today, focusing on topics of spatial and cultural boundaries, border identities, and expressions of excluded identities. This book discusses works by known and less-known writers as well as by some new writers: Sibilla Aleramo, La Marchesa Colombi, Giuliana Morandini, Elsa Morante, Neera, Matilde Serao, Ribka Sibhatu, Patrizia Valduga, Annie Vivanti, Laila Waida, among others; writers who in their works have manifested transgression to confinement and entrapment, either social, cultural, or professional; or who have given significance to national and transnational borders, or have employed particular narrative strategies to give voice to what often exceeds expression. Through its contributions, the volume demonstrates how Italian women writers have negotiated material as well as social and cultural boundaries, and how their literary imagination has created dimensions of boundary-crossing. |