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Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture , Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Italian and Italian American Studies Series
Coordinators: Picchietti Virginia, Salsini Laura A.
Language: EnglishPublication date: 09-2018
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 02-2017
Support: Print on demand
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1. Introduction
Part I: Poetry
2. The Broken Language of High Poetry: Agency and Emotion in Teresino by Vivian Lamarque
Enrico Minardi
3. Re-Appropriation for a New Symbolic Order: The Search for Identity in the Poetry of Armanda Guiducci, Maria Luisa Spaziani, and Oliva Gualtieri Bernardi
Rosa Cuda
Part II: Cinema
4. Mambo and Maggiorate: Italian Female Stardom in the 1950s
Elisa Uffreduzzi
5. Mina: Narrative and Cinematic Spectacle of the Italian Woman of the Early 1960s
Paola Valentini
6. Beyond the Male Gaze: Conceiving the ‘Fourth Gaze’ in La bestia nel cuore
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
Part III: Theatre < <
7. From Fairy Tale to Hysteria: Women in Italian Theatre in the Early 1950s
Daniela Cavallero
8. Telling Lives, Staging Silences: Dacia Maraini's Biographical Theater
Alex Standen
9. Staging the (Sur)real World: Soledad Agresti’s Theater of Women
Raffaele Furno
Part IV: Prose
10. Writing History, Trauma, and the (Dis/Re)Appearance of the Body in Cutrufelli's La briganta
Sandra Walters
11. The Treasure Chest and the Talisman: Writing between Reality and Myth in Maria Giacobbe
Angela Guiso
12. Space and Sexualization in the Fin de Siècle Italian Female Narrative
Anna Marchioni Cucchiella
Notes on Contributors
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.
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.