Across Genres, Generations and Borders: Italian Women Writing Lives
Edited by Susanna Scarparo and Rita Wilson
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ISBN: 0-87413-918-X
Published in 2005
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This book examines the processes involved in writing the lives of women, both as autobiographies and as biographies. Some essays are theoretical discussions about the constructions of self-articulation in women's life writing. Others are more autobiographical, emphasizing the importance of self-articulation for creating possibilities for self-direction. Adopting different theoretical approaches, chapters in this collection highlight the connections between subjectivity and history, feminist concerns about mothering and the mother-daughter relationships, autobiography, discourse and its framing of the relationship between text and life, and the ethics of constructing biographies. The book is divided into three parts: the first part focuses on the process of writing lives as expressed but also contested in epistolary narratives, autobiography, and historical fiction. The second part considers notions of female genealogy and the relationship with the material, both biological and symbolic. The third part comprises articles that deal with writing outside geographical and metaphorical borders. Susanna Scarparo is Cassamarca Lecturer in Italian Studies at Monash University. Rita Wilson teaches Italian and Translation Studies at Monash University.
