Sister Souls: The Power of Personal Narrative in the Poetic Works of Antonia Pozzi and Vittorio Serini

By Amber Godey

This book focuses on the autobiographical poetry of early 20th-century author Antonia Pozzi and her lifelong friend and fellow poet, Vittorio Sereni, most particularly on the autobiographical format of their writing and its role as a mode of "passive resistance" to Fascist control, a mode of resistance familiar to women's writing even before the onset of Fascist totalitarianism. While Sereni is by far the better-known author, his response to the war experience and, particularly, to imprisonment recalls Pozzi's work on a number of levels. In the "diaries" of both authors, autobiography functions as a means of constantly reasserting the self as a unique and separate individual against the totalizing forces of Fascist propaganda.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611470323
• ISBN13: 9781611470321
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"