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Race and narrative in Italian women's writing since unification /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 common in both racial and narrative formations. These include intertextuality; characterization, plot, and tropes; the tension between the projections of identity as individual, group, and universal; and the processes of identification and otherness. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxv, 127 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-121) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611476002 1611476003 |