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Keeping House
Food and its preparation play an integral role in this novel of a young Italian woman struggling to find her own identity in a family of strong personalities and colorful figures.
Voices of the Diaspora
Voices of the Diaspora offers, for the first time, representative works by major Jewish women writers from Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Russia. These stories and essays, written over the last twenty-five years, speak to the challenges confronting the post-Shoah generations of Jews living in Europe: a need to commemorate the lives extinguished in the camps; a desire to repair a ruptured culture; and a determination to reclaim a Jewish identity resistant to assimilation and the threats of anti-Semitism. At the same time, these writers address themes specific to their national contexts. Berlin-born Barbara Honigmann questions the possibility of Jewish li...
Clara Sereni
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Manicomio primavera
Madri speciali, che si avventurano nella relazione con un figlio «diverso» per aiutarlo a «venire al mondo» una seconda volta, per insegnargli – più attraverso i gesti che con le parole – una strada di crescita e autonomia. Madri abitate dalla vergogna di aver «partorito un prodotto imperfetto»: sono loro le protagoniste dei tredici racconti che compongono questo libro. La «normalità» e le diagnosi, l’ossessione e la speranza, la fatica e i sorrisi, la solitudine e la possibilità di condividere un percorso: in queste pagine Clara Sereni parte da piccole situazioni quotidiane per parlarci del sottile confine tra equilibrio e squilibrio, dell’amore che può essere salvato dall’ombra.
Writing Mothers and Daughters
This first systematic study of mother-daughter relationships as represented in Western European fiction during the second half of the 20th century provides a comparative study of works from England, France, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Italy, and Spain. For each individual body of texts, the authors identify characteristics arising from specific national literary traditions and from internal cultural diversities. The text suggests avenues for future investigation both within and across national boundaries. The featured writers include Steedman, Diski, Winterson, Tennant, de Beauvoir, Leduc, Djura, Wolf, Jelinek, Mitgutsch, Novak, Lavin, O'Brien, O'Faolin, Morante, Sanvitale, Ramondino, Chacel, Rodoreda, and Martin Gaite. The six contributing authors are scholars from New Zealand, England, Ireland, Italy and Wales. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies
The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.
Una storia chiusa
Ci sono luoghi dove i ricordi di più persone si intrecciano, senza riuscire a diventare memoria condivisa. Giovanna, magistrata a rischio costretta a vivere sotto copertura benché ormai fuori dai ranghi, cerca in una casa di riposo qualcosa che sarà pena o sollievo, dipenderà anche dalle sue scelte. I suoi compagni di viaggio si conoscono fra di loro più per le malattie di cui soffrono che per nome, e condividerne la quotidiana fatica a sopravvivere, costantemente avvelenata dal rancore per le promesse non mantenute dalla vita, impegna Giovanna in una lotta vischiosa con se stessa. La grande Storia ha attraversato la piccola esistenza di ciascuno, imprimendovi cicatrici incancellabili: ...
Italian Women and Autobiography
The essays included in this collection examine issues such as identity and ideology which are at play in the female autobiography practice, along with the problematicity that these trigger in terms of self-representation and traditional formal boundaries. The women writers analyzed here through mainly historical, literary, feminist and psychoanalytic lenses cover a long period in the history of Italy, spanning from the Fascist era to our time. In an attempt to organize and connect these texts which are chronologically far apart, we have divided our contributions into two main parts. The first, “Shapes of Ideology,” includes authors interacting primarily with political ideology in a way t...
