Sister Souls - The Power of Personal Narrative in the Poetic Works of Antonia Pozzi and Vittorio Serini

This book focuses on the autobiographical poetry of early 20th-century author Antonia Pozzi and her lifelong friend and fellow poet, Vittorio Sereni, most particularly on the autobiographical format of their writing and its role as a mode of "passive resistance" to Fascist control, a mode of resistance familiar to women's writing even before the onset of Fascist totalitarianism. While Sereni is by far the better-known author, his response to the war experience and, particularly, to imprisonment recalls Pozzi's work on a number of levels. In the "diaries" of both authors, autobiography functions as a means of constantly reasserting the self as a unique and separate individual against the totalizing forces of Fascist propaganda.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Theoretical Background
Chapter 2: Historical Background
Chapter 3: Bisogno di una sorella
Chapter 4: The Banfi School and the Crisis of Modernity
Chapter 5: "If my words could be given..."
Chapter 6: "I morti come noi"
Conclusions
Bibliography

About the author

By Amber R. Godey

Product details

• Authors: Amber R. Godey
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2011
• EAN: 9781611470321
• ISBN: 978-1-61147-032-1
• No. of pages: 164
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 398 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama