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This is the first edited volume in English on the Sicilian author Goliarda Sapienza, contextualizing her work within Italian and European literature. The essays in this volume examine Sapienza through multiple perspectives, taking into account the articulation of subjectivity through autobiographical writing and the complex representation of gender and sexual identities.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Alberica Bazzoni, Emma Bond and Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
Part I: Life, Writing and the Ethics of Subjectivity
1. Goliarda Sapienza's Permanent Autobiography
Mariagiovanna Andrigo
2. Reforging the Maternal Bond: Motherhood, Mother-Daughter Relationships and Female Relationality in Goliarda Sapienza's L'arte della gioia'
Aureliana Di Rollo
3. "A Backbone Held Together by Joy": The Transformative Power of L'arte della gioia
André Bella
4. Nomadic Modesta
Monica Farnetti
5. Goliarda Sapienza: The Unknown Scriptwriter
Emma Gobbato
Part II: International Intertextuality
6. Goliarda Sapienza's "French Connections"
Charlotte Ross
7. "A World without Men": Interaffectivity and the Function of Shame in the Prison Writings of Goliarda Sapienza and Joan Henry
Emma Bond
8. Orlando and Modesta: Two Voices for the Freedom of Women
Belen Hernandez
Part III: The Italian Context
9. Beyond the Canon: Goliarda Sapienza and Twentieth Century Italian Literary Tradition
Laura Fortini
10. Agency and History in Sapienza's L'arte della gioia and Morante's La Storia
Alberica Bazzoni
11. The Art of Change: Race and the Body in Goliarda Sapienza's L'arte della gioia
Goffredo Polizzi
Part IV: Spaces of Recollection
12. Changing Recollections: Goliarda Sapienza and Fabrizia Ramondino Writing and Rewriting Childhood
Laura Ferro
13. "L'acqua in gabbia": The Space of the (Female) Prison between Dystopia and Heterotopia in Memorie di una ladra and L'università di Rebibbia'
Maria Morelli
14. '"Ero separata da me": Memory, Selfhood and Mother-Tongue in Goliarda Sapienza and Elena Ferrante
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
About the author
Edited by Alberica Bazzoni; Emma Bond and Katrin Wehling-Giorgi - Contributions by Mariagiovanna Andrigo; Andrée Bella; Aureliana Di Rollo; Monica Farnetti; Laura Ferro; Emma Gobbato; Laura Fortini; M. Belén Hernández; Maria Morelli; Goffredo Polizzi; Cha
