[PDF] Trauma Narratives In Italian And Transnational Womens Writing eBook

Author : Tiziana de Rogatis
Publisher : Sapienza Università Editrice
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8893772558

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This edited volume is the first to propose new readings of Italian and transnational female-authored texts through the lens of Trauma Studies. Illuminating a space that has so far been left in the shadows, Trauma Narratives in Italian and Transnational Women’s Writing provides new insights into how the trope of trauma shapes the narrative, temporal and linguistic dimension of these works. The various contributions delineate a landscape of female-authored Italian and transnational trauma narratives and their complex textual negotiation of suffering and pathos, from the twentieth century to the present day. These zones of trauma engender a new aesthetics and a new reading of history and cultural memory as an articulation of female creativity and resistance against a dominant cultural and social order.

Author : S. Andermahr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137268352

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Featuring contributions from a wide array of international scholars, the book explores the variety of representational strategies used to depict female traumatic experiences in texts by or about women, and in so doing articulates the complex relation between trauma, gender and signification.

Author : Mary Jo Bona
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1498525865

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Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary performs a ground-breaking intervention by uncovering the relationship between literary cloth-working women and migration in a range of American novels across centuries. Bona demonstrates how four authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, and Adria Bernardi, innovate on pre-modern stories of weaving women in order to explore the intricate connections between handwork, resourcefulness, and mobility. Refracted through the lens of women’s migratory experiences vis-à-vis cloth-working aesthetics, Women Writing Cloth examines varied aspects of sewing—embroidering, quilting, and rebozo-making—as textual signifiers of mobility and preservation. Through authorial innovation,women’s handwork constitutes a revolt against a devaluation of cultural heritage and a distrust of the self. Women Writing Cloth argues that literary, cloth-working women inspire paradigmatic shifts in social codes due to portable skills that enabled their survival in the new world. Bona paints a complex picture of women whose migratory experiences taught them how to live within a stigmatizing culture and beneath institutional powers to control their artistry. Fabric designs assume fuller multicultural meaning when textiles cross borders and tell unspeakable stories that expose constraints typifying gender, race, and heritage. The authors examined simulate the artistic creativity of cloth-work by interrogating traditional assumptions about representation, chronology, and spatial boundaries. Women Writing Cloth breaks new ground to reveal the elaborate relationship between cloth-work expertise and women’s mobility. Variations of cloth-working women showcase a relationship between subversive artistry and institutional oppressions that compel strategies of resistance, enable survival, and, inspired by migration, construct inventive fabric creations. Women Writing Cloth engages the activity of cloth work as a means of reclamation and subversive expression represented in American literature.

Author : Laura Lazzari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030774074

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Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture repositions motherhood studies through the lens of trauma theory by exploring new challenges surrounding conception, pregnancy, and postpartum experiences. Chapters investigate nine case studies of motherhood trauma and recovery in literature and culture from the last twenty years by exploring their emotional consequences through the lens of trauma, resilience, and “working through” theories. Contributions engage with a transnational corpus drawn from the five continents and span topics as rarely discussed as pregnancy denial, surrogacy, voluntary or involuntary childlessness, racism and motherhood, carceral mothering practices, surrogacy, IVF, artificial wombs, and mothering through war, genocide, and migration. Accompanied by an online creative supplement, this volume deals with silenced aspects of embodied motherhood while enhancing a better understanding of the cathartic effects of storytelling.

Author : Maria Florence Massucco
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2023
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This project investigates the way in which the figure of the hysterical woman has been taken up and reworked by Italian women writers in the decades following WWI. The first section identifies the importance of surgical imagery in the works of Enif Robert, Goliarda Sapienza, and Elena Ferrante, and proposes that such imagery shifts characterization away from madness towards an experience of woundedness. With the help of Adriana Cavarero's feminist narrative philosophy and in dialogue with contemporary thinking on trauma, this section complicates the simplistic tendency to equate storytelling with agency and healing. The second section focuses on envied or desired wounds and wounds that cross generations, with a focus on Elsa Morante and Elena Ferrante. This analysis identifies the fervent witnessing of the wounds of others as significant for the feminist project of countering isolation; woundedness can then be understood as part of the work of a dark feminism. Taking Ferrante's call for the exploration of the dark sides of female experience as a theoretical point of departure, the third section analyzes four recent works of Italian film that explore maternity beyond the confines of traditional representation. The project identifies a strong Italian contribution to contemporary transnational feminist thought, and its connection to a long, underrecognized, pattern of carving out artistic space for darkly feminist forms of expression, particularly those that emphasize wounds as both evidence of painful experience and opportunities for deepened understanding.

Author : Melissa Coburn
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611476003

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Race as Narrative in Italian Women's Writing Since Unification explores racist ideas and critiques of racism in four long narratives by female authors Grazia Deledda, Matilde Serao, Natalia Ginzburg, and Gabriella Ghermandi, who wrote in Italy after national unification. Starting from the premise that race is a political and socio-historical construction, Melissa Coburn makes the argument that race is also a narrative construction. This is true in that many narratives have contributed to the historical construction of the idea of race; it is also true in that the concept of race metaphorically reflects certain formal qualities of narration. Coburn demonstrates that at least four sets of qualities are common among narratives and central to the development of race discourse: intertextuality; the processes of characterization, plot, and tropes; the tension between the projections of individual, group, and universal identities; and the processes of identification and otherness. These four sets of qualities become organizing principles of the four sequential chapters, paralleling a sequential focus on the four different narrative authors. The juxtaposition of these close, contextualized readings demonstrates salient continuities and discontinuities within race discourse over the period examined, revealing subtleties in the historical record overlooked by previous studies.

Author : Alberto Baracco
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1527580970

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This volume offers new approaches to considering Italy’s traumatic experiences through a wide array of media, including film, documentaries, docufiction, websites, YouTube videos, advertisements, newspapers, and literature, that have not yet been fully analyzed. It looks at the trauma inflicted on Italians not, simply, as national or cultural traumas but, rather, as the creation/identification of subnational and transnational communities shaped by these trauma cases. The term “subnational”, or “transnational”, community is used mostly in reference to human beings, as they form those communities; however, they are also connected to a specific place, namely Italy. In addition, whereas “things” cannot become traumatized, this book also considers “living things,” such as the environment and the nature, which may create further trauma(s) for people.

Author : Michael Rothberg
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816634590

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Drawing on a wide range of texts, Michael Rothberg puts forth an overarching framework for understanding representations of the Holocaust. Through close readings of such writers and thinkers as Theodor Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Ruth Klüger, Charlotte Delbo, Art Spiegelman, and Philip Roth and an examination of films by Steven Spielberg and Claude Lanzmann, Rothberg demonstrates how the Holocaust as a traumatic event makes three fundamental demands on representation: a demand for documentation, a demand for reflection on the limits of representation, and a demand for engagement with the public.

Author : Virginia Picchietti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 2017-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319408356

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This volume investigates the ways in which Italian women writers, filmmakers, and performers have represented female identity across genres from the immediate post-World War II period to the turn of the twenty-first century. Considering genres such as prose, poetry, drama, and film, these essays examine the vision of female agency and self-actualization arising from women artists’ critique of female identity. This dual approach reveals unique interpretations of womanhood in Italy spanning more than fifty years, while also providing a deep investigation of the manipulation of canvases historically centered on the male subject. With its unique coupling of generic and thematic concerns, the volume contributes to the ever expanding female artistic legacy, and to our understanding of postwar Italian women’s evolving relationship to the narration of history, gender roles, and these artists’ use and revision of generic convention to communicate their vision.