Overview
- Uniquely contributes to our understanding of the legacy of postwar Italian artists across genres by focusing on the representation of female identity
- Deepens the critical appreciation of the social impact of women artists by investing generic questions in terms of history, agency, and subject formation
- Brings together a wide variety of source material including Italian prose, poetry, theater, and cinema from the post-World War II period to the early twenty-first century.
Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Reviews
“This collection sheds new light on Italian women artists such as Armanda Guiducci and Vivien Lamarque, Dacia Maraini, and Maria Rosa Cutrufelli. It points to the recognition of female subjectivity through the introduction of themes and structures subverting the aesthetic formulas of twentieth-century Italian art.” (Stefania Lucamante, Ordinary Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, The Catholic University of America, USA)
“This book provides a fresh perspective on women’s desires, constraints, reflections, and breakthroughs in Italian culture throughout the decades since World War II. The rich combination of lesser known texts and contexts, combined with an intermedial and interdisciplinary approach to subjectivity, takes the reader beyond well-known gender paradigms, inspiring his or her own repositioning as observer and/or participant in Italian culture.” (Colleen Ryan, Professor of Italian, Indiana University Bloomington, USA)“This compelling volume on poetry, fiction, as well as cinema and theater, contributes to our understanding of women's relationship to history, subjectivity, and gender representation.” (Daria Valentini, Professor of Italian, Stonehill College, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Virginia Picchietti, Professor of Italian at the University of Scranton, USA, writes on twentieth- century Italian women authors and on Italian Jewish Literature and Film.
Laura A. Salsini, Professor of Italian at the University of Delaware, USA, writes on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian women authors.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture
Editors: Virginia Picchietti, Laura A. Salsini
Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40835-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40834-7Published: 10 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82197-9Published: 11 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40835-4Published: 28 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2635-2931
Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 278
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, European Culture, European Cinema and TV