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Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic - The Creation of Literary Space (Hardcover)
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Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic - The Creation of Literary Space (Hardcover)
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Contemporary fantastic fiction, particularly that written by women,
often challenges traditional literary practice. At the same time
the predominantly male-authored canon of fantastic literature
offers a problematic range of gender stereotypes for female authors
to 're-write'. Fantastic tropes, of space in particular, enable
three important contemporary Italian female writers (Paola
Capriolo, b. 1962; Francesca Duranti, b. 1935 and Rossana Ombres,
b. 1931) to encounter and counter anxieties about writing from the
female subject position. All three writers begin by exploring the
hermetic, fantastic space of enclosure with a critical, or
troubled, eye, but eventually opt for wider national, and often
international spaces, in which only a 'fantastic trace' remains.
This shift mirrors their own increasingly confident distance from
male-authored literary models and demonstrates the creative input
that these writers bring to the literary canon, by redefining its
generic boundaries.
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