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Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

Editors: Picchietti, Virginia; Salsini, Laura A.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40835-4

ISBN: 978-3-319-40834-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Feb 3, 2017

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Introduction

Picchietti, Virginia; Salsini, Laura A.

Pages: 1 –15

[Italian women writers, filmmakers, and performers working from the 1950s to the turn of the twenty-first century present a multi-generic response to the place of womanhood in Italy. They confront the discrepancy between the definitions of womanhood developing from traditional strictures...
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The Broken Language of High Poetry: Agency and Emotion in Teresino by Vivian Lamarque

Minardi, Enrico

Pages: 19 –41

[Enrico Minardi, in “The Broken Language of High Poetry: Agency and Emotion in Teresino by Vivian Lamarque,” looks at Lamarque’s work’s overtly autobiographic perspective, in which the writing subject manipulates language and the conventions of poetry in a powerful effort to transgress the...
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Re-appropriation for a New Symbolic Order: The Search for Identity in the Poetry of Armanda Guiducci, Maria Luisa Spaziani and Oliva Gualtieri Bernardi

Cuda, Rosa

Pages: 43 –57

[Rosa Cuda explores how women poets re-appropriate conventional symbols to create authentic representations of the female self through their poetry. In her essay, “Re-appropriation for a New Symbolic Order: The Search for Identity in the Poetry of Armanda Guiducci, Maria Luisa Spaziani and Oliva...
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Mambo and Maggiorate: Italian Female Stardom in the 1950s

Uffreduzzi, Elisa

Pages: 61 –80

[Elisa Uffreduzzi, in “Mambo and Maggiorate: Italian Female Stardom in the 1950s,” examines how female Italian film stars used the provocative mambo dance to express their sexuality and independence. The depiction of this Latin American dance in some of Italy’s most renowned films allowed...
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Mina: Narrative and Cinematic Spectacle of the Italian Woman of the 1960s

Valentini, Paola

Pages: 81 –103

[The popular singer Mina, and her forays into music, cinema, television and advertising, speak to the transformation of Italian culture in the 1960s. As Paola Valentini writes in “Mina: Narrative and Cinematic Spectacle of the Italian Woman of the Early 1960s,” Mina rejected the model of the...
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Beyond the “Male Gaze”—Conceiving the “Fourth” Gaze in La bestia nel cuore

Calabretta-Sajder, Ryan

Pages: 105 –124

[Cristina Comencini’s 2005 film La bestia nel cuore confronts the traditional cinematic gaze, creating an alternative vision of femaleness and female behavior, according to Ryan Calabretta-Sajder’s essay “Beyond the Male Gaze: Conceiving the ‘Fourth’ Gaze in La bestia nel cuore.” He identifies in...
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From Fairy Tale to Hysteria: Women in Italian Theater in the Early 1950s

Cavallaro, Daniela

Pages: 127 –151

[In “From Fairy Tale to Hysteria: Women in Italian Theater in the Early 1950s,” Daniela Cavallaro examines the ways in which womanhood is portrayed in two plays of the 1950s, Anna Bonacci’s Sulle soglie della storia and Clotilde Masci’s Vigilia nuziale. The pieces foreground the conflict between...
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Telling Lives, Staging Silences: Dacia Maraini’s “Biographical” Theater

Standen, Alex

Pages: 153 –174

[In “Telling Lives, Staging Silences: Dacia Maraini’s ‘Biographical’ Theater,” Alex Standen investigates Maraini’s adaptation of canonical plays by Friedrich Schiller (Mary Stuart) and Peter Weiss (Marat/Sade), and depiction of historical female figures. Standen argues that in rewriting the...
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Staging the (Sur)real World: Soledad Agresti’s Theater of Women

Furno, Raffaele

Pages: 175 –198

[In “Staging the (Sur)real World: Soledad Agresti’s Theater of Women,” Raffaele Furno examines Agresti’s critique of womanhood in her surrealist plays. Agresti’s as yet unpublished Il frutto reveals female friendship as a relational site in which women can be both victims of the confines of...
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Writing History, Trauma, and the (Dis/Re) Appearance of the Body in Cutrufelli’s La briganta

Waters, Sandra

Pages: 201 –221

[In “Writing Trauma, History, and the (Dis/Re)Appearance of the Body in Cutrufelli’s La briganta,” Sandra Waters contemplates the ways in which Cutrufelli’s novel uses elements of the conventional (male) historical novel, but more importantly extends its focus to consider how history is...

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