Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture

By Virginia Picchietti

Book Overview

Contents

1. Introduction

Part I: Poetry

2. The Broken Language of High Poetry: Agency and Emotion in Teresino by Vivian Lamarque

Enrico Minardi

3. Re-Appropriation for a New Symbolic Order: The Search for Identity in the Poetry of Armanda Guiducci, Maria Luisa Spaziani, and Oliva Gualtieri Bernardi

Rosa Cuda

Part II: Cinema

4. Mambo and Maggiorate: Italian Female Stardom in the 1950s

Elisa Uffreduzzi

5. Mina: Narrative and Cinematic Spectacle of the Italian Woman of the Early 1960s

Paola Valentini

6. Beyond the Male Gaze: Conceiving the 'Fourth Gaze' in La bestia nel cuore

Ryan Calabretta-Sajder

Part III: Theatre

7. From Fairy Tale to Hysteria: Women in Italian Theatre in the Early 1950s

Daniela Cavallero

8. Telling Lives, Staging Silences: Dacia Maraini's Biographical Theater

Alex Standen

9. Staging the (Sur)real World: Soledad Agresti's Theater of Women

Raffaele Furno

Part IV: Prose

10. Writing History, Trauma, and the (Dis/Re)Appearance of the Body in Cutrufelli's La briganta

Sandra Walters

11. The Treasure Chest and the Talisman: Writing between Reality and Myth in Maria Giacobbe

Angela Guiso

12. Space and Sexualization in the Fin de Si?cle Italian Female Narrative

Anna Marchioni Cucchiella

Notes on Contributors

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319408348
• ISBN13: 9783319408347
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.7"