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Unspeakable Women - Selected Short Stories Written by Italian Women during Fascism (Paperback)
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Unspeakable Women - Selected Short Stories Written by Italian Women during Fascism (Paperback)
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Loot Price R444
Discovery Miles 4 440
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Despite the misogynist ideology of Italian Fascism, and contrary to
the picture drawn in the most post-war literary histories and
anthologies, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of wide publication
and both popular and critical recognition for female authors in
Italy. Focusing on the cultural pages of three major daily
newspapers of the period, Robin Pickering-Iazzi discovered a wealth
of contributions by famous and less-known woman that have been
unavailable to readers in Italy as well as the United States for
over 60 years. Expertly translated, these 16 stories are evidence
not only of the high literary quality of this body of work but also
of resistance to the self-sacrificing ideal of the "New Woman" of
Fascism. The memorable female characters in "Unspeakable Women"
adopt a varying strategies to create their own identities and
agency regarding writing, sexuality, marriage, and family-all in
opposition to the repressive norms of the culture. The stories are
by Grazia Deledda, who won the Noble Prize for Literature in 1926,
Maria Luisa Astaldi, Gianna Manzini, Ada Negri, Carola Prosperi,
Pia Rimini, and Clarice Tartufari.
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