Italian Women and Autobiography: Ideology, Discourse and Identity in Female Life Narratives from Fascism to the Present
Fabiana Cecchini · Ioana Raluca Larco
Jan 2011 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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The essays included in this collection examine issues such as identity and ideology which are at play in the female autobiography practice, along with the problematicity that these trigger in terms of self-representation and traditional formal boundaries. The women writers analyzed here through mainly historical, literary, feminist and psychoanalytic lenses cover a long period in the history of Italy, spanning from the Fascist era to our time. In an attempt to organize and connect these texts which are chronologically far apart, we have divided our contributions into two main parts. The first, “Shapes of Ideology,” includes authors interacting primarily with political ideology in a way that eventually entails the challenge of the official “technologies of gender” (De Lauretis, 1987) and implicitly, a reflection on the gendered identity. In the second part, “Reconsidering ideology, negotiating autobiography,” while the political ideology is not completely excluded, it becomes however something more internalized and relevant to the writers’ quest for identity. Such process bears consequences with respect to the canon of autobiography, as authors experiment with new forms of autobiographical narratives and readers become more and more an integral component of this personal endeavor.
About the author
Ioana Raluca Larco is a PhD candidate in Italian Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, USA, completing a dissertation on “Facets of female identity in autobiographical writings during the interwar period in Italy.” She graduated in Modern Languages and Literatures (Italian and French) from “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iasi, Romania. Her research interests, reviews and papers, which have been presented at several conferences, include topics related to women studies, Twentieth century Italian poetry and teaching methodology. At present, she is a Lecturer in Italian at the University of Kentucky.
Fabiana Cecchini is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, USA. She holds a Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere from the Università degli studi di Urbino and a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Her main scholarly interests include women’s studies, Italian cinema, and the relationship between film and literature. She has published on Sibilla Aleramo.
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