Public History, Private Stories : Italian Womens Autobiography.

Public History, Private Stories : Italian Womens Autobiography.

Parati examines the ways in which Italian women writers articulate their identities through autobiographya public act that is also the creation of a private life. Considering autobiographical writings by five women writers from the seventeenth century to the present, Parati draws important connectio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parati, Graziella
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Italian prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Autobiography > Women authors.
Public opinion in literature.
Women and literature > Italy.
Privacy in literature.
Women in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
Autobiography > Women authors
Italian prose literature > Women authors
Privacy in literature
Public opinion in literature
Women and literature
Women in literature
Italy
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE: Camilla Faà Gonzaga: Public and Private in a Woman's Autobiography; TWO: Speaking through Her Body: The Futurist Seduction of a Woman's Voice; THREE: From Genealogy to Gynealogy and Beyond: Fausta Cialente's Le quattro ragazze Wieselberger; FOUR: Rita Levi Montalcini's Perfect Imperfection: A Woman's Role in the Public Sphere; FIVE: Luisa Passerini's Autoritratto di gruppo: Personalizing Theory; CONCLUSION: Beyond Gynealogical Techniques: Writing Private History and Public Stories; Notes; Index.

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