Italian Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century - Constructing Subjects

This critical volume offers an overview and close analysis of Italian women’s autobiographical writings from the twentieth century, engaging with issues of form and content and identifying recurring paradigms. It will be of interest to students of Italian literature and culture, autobiographical studies, and gender studies.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Self-Constructions and Deconstructions at the Margins of Fiction
1 Figuring the Father: The Long Paternal Shadow
2 My Mother, My Self?
3 Bonds and Binds (1): Rewriting Romance
4 Bonds and Binds (2): Imagining and Reconceptualizing Motherhood
5 The Self as Writer
6 The Paratext
Index
About the Author

About the author

Ursula Fanning

Product details

• Authors: Ursula Fanning
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2017
• EAN: 9781683930310
• ISBN: 978-1-68393-031-0
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 577 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama