Race and narrative in Italian women's writing since unification /

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Given that race is a socio-historical and political construction, this work argues that race is also a narrative construction. Examining the construction of race in works by Italian authors since national unification (Deledda, Serao, Ginzburg and Ghermandi), the book finds certain elements to be com...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coburn, Melissa, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Italian literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Race dans la littérature.
Narration.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
Italian literature > Women authors
Race in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Race as narration: studies of Italian women's writings since unification
  • Grazia Deledda's narrative negotiations with the racialization of Sardinian character
  • The tropics of race in the land of Cockayne
  • The irreducible individual and the ethics of writing in Natalia Ginzburg's Lessico famigliare
  • "We are stories of stories in history": re-imagining community as narrative in Regina Di Fiori e di Perle by Gabriella Ghermandi
  • Conclusions: The persistent past: haunting as metaphor for racism in texts from Deledda to Ghermandi.

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