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Author Coburn, Melissa, 1971-

Title Race and narrative in Italian women's writing since unification / Melissa Coburn.

Publication Info. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xxxv, 127 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-121) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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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Subject Italian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Italian literature -- Women authors.
Italian literature.
Race in literature.
Race in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Narration (Rhetoric)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Coburn, Melissa, 1971- Race and narrative in Italian women's writing since unification. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013 9781611475999 (DLC) 2013013820 (OCoLC)842316312
ISBN 9781611476002 (electronic book)
1611476003 (electronic book)
9781611475999 (cloth)
1611475996 (cloth)