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This book investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today and considers the topics of boundaries and borders in their writings.
List of contents
Introduction
Section 1
1.1: Anna Hallamore Caesar "Confinement, and Shifting Boundaries in Post-Unification Writing by Women"
1.2: Catherine Ramsey-Portolano "Women Writers Confined: the Case of Neera"
1.3: Cristina Gragnani and Ombretta Frau "Nineteenth Century Women Writers Between Marginality and (Aspirations of) Inclusion: A Puzzling Balance"
1.4: Rhianedd Jewell "Sardinian Confines in the Works of Grazia Deledda"
Section 2
2.1: Giuliana Morandini "Boundaries, the Work of Writing and the Female
Soul"
2.2: Eleanor David The Dialogue with the Dead in Patrizia Valduga's Requiem'
2.3: Anne Urbancic "Staging Motherhood: Considering Annie Vivanti's Fact and Fiction"
2.4: Margherita Ganeri "The Shadow of the Author in La Storia"
Section 3
3.1: Rita Wilson "Topographies of Identity"
3.2: Simone Brioni "Across Languages, Cultures and Nations: Ribka Sibhatu's Aulò"
3.3: Donatella De Ferra "The Mediation of Borders, in Greta Vidal by Antonella Sbuelz Carignani"
3.4: Patrizia Sambuco "Crossing Boundaries and Borders: Matilde Serao's Travel Writing"
About the author
Patrizia Sambuco is Cassamarca lecturer in Italian studies at Monash University.
Summary
This book investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today and considers the topics of boundaries and borders in their writings.
