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Title

The pleasure of writing : critical essays on Dacia Maraini / edited by Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld and Ada Testaferri.

Publication

West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Diaconescu-Blumenfeld, Rodica.
• Testaferri, Ada.

Description

ix, 277 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Maraini's own analysis of women's writing and the dynamic of denigration that disavows its value, "Reflections on the Logical and Illogical Bodies of My Sexual Compatriots," opens the volume. There follow fourteen essays by an international group of Italianists, utilizing a wide spectrum of interpretive perspectives, from semiotics to psychoanalysis, to treat the full range of Maraini's production as novelist, playwright, poet, and film-maker." "This volume is recommended to both Italianist and feminist scholars and students, as well as to readers concerned with the ties between literary theory and textual analysis."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 20

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Purdue studies in Romance literatures v. 20.

Subject

Maraini, Dacia > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preliminaries -- Introduction / Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld -- Reflections on the Logical and Illogical Bodies of My Sexual Compatriots / Dacia Maraini -- Demythicizing Genre: Issues of Representation and Language -- De-tecting Voci / Ada Testaferri -- Spatialized Gender and the Poetry of Dacia Maraini / Corrado Federici -- Ecriture Feminine as Consciousness of the Condition of Women in Dacia Maraini's Early Narrative / Elisabetta Properzi Nelsen -- Poetics and Practices of Liberation -- Symbolic Mediation and Female Community in Dacia Maraini's Fiction / Virginia Picchietti -- Variations on a Theme: Violence against Women in the Writings of Dacia Maraini / Giovanna Bellesia -- Dacia Maraini's "Barricade Theater" / Daniela Cavallaro -- Historiographies -- A memoria: Charting a Cultural Map for Women's Transition from Preistoria to Storia / Giancarlo Lombardi -- La lunga vita di Marianna Ucria: A Feminist Revisiting of the Eighteenth Century / Maria Ornella Marotti -- Vocal Marginality: Dacia Maraini's Veronica Franco / Paola Caru -- Reclaiming the Body in the Construction of Subjectivity -- Body as Will: Incarnate Voice in Dacia Maraini / Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld -- Remembering What the Closed Eye Sees: Some Notes on Dacia Maraini's Postmodern Oresteia / Gabrielle Cody -- Revolution in the Laundry / Pauline Dagnino -- Toward a Poor Feminist Cinema: The Experimental Films of Dacia Maraini / Aine O'Healy.

ISBN

1557531978 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99089306^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library