Dacia Maraini's narratives of survival : (re)constructed / Tommasina Gabriele.

Dacia Maraini's Narratives of Survival: (Re)Constructed explores key narratives published between1984 and 2004 through an elaboration of the paradigm of reconstruction. Using close textual analysis and interviews and essays by Maraini, the author includes men, children, animals, and imaginary c...

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Main Author: Gabriele, Tommasina, 1962- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison, New Jersey : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2016]
Series:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Too sweet for the sweet: backard and downward in Il treno per Helsinki
  • Acts of reconstruction: Isolina, la donna tagliata a pezzi
  • The metaphor of arrested maternity and the reconstruction of maternal desire: from Donna in guerra to La nave per Kobe
  • The child protagonist: crossing genres in Dolce per se and Storie di cani per una bambina
  • The reconstruction of Cronaca Nera: Buio
  • Postmodern reconstructions: individual and collective survival in Colomba.