Trauma Narratives In Italian And Transnational Women S Writing

Author : Tiziana de Rogatis,Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
Publisher : Sapienza Università Editrice
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788893772556

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Trauma Narratives in Italian and Transnational Women’s Writing by Tiziana de Rogatis,Katrin Wehling-Giorgi Pdf

This edited volume is the first to propose new readings of Italian and transnational female-authored texts through the lens of Trauma Studies. Illuminating a space that has so far been left in the shadows, Trauma Narratives in Italian and Transnational Women’s Writing provides new insights into how the trope of trauma shapes the narrative, temporal and linguistic dimension of these works. The various contributions delineate a landscape of female-authored Italian and transnational trauma narratives and their complex textual negotiation of suffering and pathos, from the twentieth century to the present day. These zones of trauma engender a new aesthetics and a new reading of history and cultural memory as an articulation of female creativity and resistance against a dominant cultural and social order.

Author : S. Andermahr,S. Pellicer-Ortin,Silvia Pellicer-Ortín
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137268358

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Trauma Narratives and Herstory by S. Andermahr,S. Pellicer-Ortin,Silvia Pellicer-Ortín Pdf

Featuring contributions from a wide array of international scholars, the book explores the variety of representational strategies used to depict female traumatic experiences in texts by or about women, and in so doing articulates the complex relation between trauma, gender and signification.

Author : Alberto Baracco,Rosario Pollicino
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527580978

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Italian Experiences of Trauma through Film and Media by Alberto Baracco,Rosario Pollicino Pdf

This volume offers new approaches to considering Italy’s traumatic experiences through a wide array of media, including film, documentaries, docufiction, websites, YouTube videos, advertisements, newspapers, and literature, that have not yet been fully analyzed. It looks at the trauma inflicted on Italians not, simply, as national or cultural traumas but, rather, as the creation/identification of subnational and transnational communities shaped by these trauma cases. The term “subnational”, or “transnational”, community is used mostly in reference to human beings, as they form those communities; however, they are also connected to a specific place, namely Italy. In addition, whereas “things” cannot become traumatized, this book also considers “living things,” such as the environment and the nature, which may create further trauma(s) for people.

Author : Virginia Picchietti,Laura A. Salsini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319408354

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Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture by Virginia Picchietti,Laura A. Salsini Pdf

This volume investigates the ways in which Italian women writers, filmmakers, and performers have represented female identity across genres from the immediate post-World War II period to the turn of the twenty-first century. Considering genres such as prose, poetry, drama, and film, these essays examine the vision of female agency and self-actualization arising from women artists’ critique of female identity. This dual approach reveals unique interpretations of womanhood in Italy spanning more than fifty years, while also providing a deep investigation of the manipulation of canvases historically centered on the male subject. With its unique coupling of generic and thematic concerns, the volume contributes to the ever expanding female artistic legacy, and to our understanding of postwar Italian women’s evolving relationship to the narration of history, gender roles, and these artists’ use and revision of generic convention to communicate their vision.

Author : Kathryn Robson
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 9042019212

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Writing Wounds by Kathryn Robson Pdf

In the last decade, the question of how trauma is remembered and narrated has become increasingly crucial in literary studies and in psychotherapy. Writing Wounds rethinks the relation between trauma, memory and narrative through readings of key fictional, autobiographical and "autofictional" texts by recent French women writers: Marie Cardinal, Chantal Chawaf, Hélène Cixous, Charlotte Delbo, Béatrice de Jurquet and Sarah Kofman. By drawing on and also interrogating recent theories of trauma, this study shows that trauma is inscribed in writing through recurring images of the body and of bodily wounding that mark the limits and possibilities of narrativisation. This book has a double aim: to offer new readings of texts by modern French women writers and to rethink the crucial question of how narratives of trauma are to be read. Writing Wounds will be of interest to researchers working on trauma, modern French literature, women's writing or "life-writing" as well as to a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses on trauma and narrative.

Author : Laura Lazzari,Nathalie Ségeral
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030774073

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Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture by Laura Lazzari,Nathalie Ségeral Pdf

Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture repositions motherhood studies through the lens of trauma theory by exploring new challenges surrounding conception, pregnancy, and postpartum experiences. Chapters investigate nine case studies of motherhood trauma and recovery in literature and culture from the last twenty years by exploring their emotional consequences through the lens of trauma, resilience, and “working through” theories. Contributions engage with a transnational corpus drawn from the five continents and span topics as rarely discussed as pregnancy denial, surrogacy, voluntary or involuntary childlessness, racism and motherhood, carceral mothering practices, surrogacy, IVF, artificial wombs, and mothering through war, genocide, and migration. Accompanied by an online creative supplement, this volume deals with silenced aspects of embodied motherhood while enhancing a better understanding of the cathartic effects of storytelling.

Author : Adele Parker,Stephenie Young
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789401208901

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Transnationalism and Resistance: Experience and Experiment in Women’s Writing by Adele Parker,Stephenie Young Pdf

This study presents a unique collection of essays which focus on the relationships among form, aesthetics, and transnational women’s writing produced in recent years. The essays in this volume treat literary works from diverse cultures and geographies, concentrating on the intersections of theory and literature. This results in a wide spectrum of identities and texts – including the work of Swedish poet Aase Berg, the Indian translation market, the Chicana novel, creative non-fiction by Croatian writer Dubravka Ugrešic, and multilingual hybrid texts by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha – in order to provide a framework for an overarching theory of transnationalism as it interacts with newer paradigms of gendered identity and the new forms of literature to which they contribute. Transnationalism and Resistance offers a multifaceted approach to transnational studies and constitutes a cogent analysis of the ways in which women’s writing informs contemporary global literary Production. This volume is of interest for scholars in women’s studies, literature, the social sciences, cultural studies and all other fields that take an interest in writing that addresses contemporary global issues.

Author : Claire Emilie Martin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031404948

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The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century by Claire Emilie Martin Pdf

Author : Julia Heim,Sole Anatrone
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031101977

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Spaghetti Sissies Queering Italian American Media by Julia Heim,Sole Anatrone Pdf

This contributed volume brings together personal accounts and scholarly research in an examination of the LGBTQIA+ Italian American experience and representation in North American media. This is a population that has long been ignored both as an object of study and as a media-maker and consumer. Through consistent filmic representation, the image of the Italian American has become archetypal, leaving us with a set of immediately recognizable characters: the hyper macho blue-collar greaser, the anti-intellectual GTL Guido, the child-obsessed mamma, and the heteronormative mafia family. The rhetorical and literal loudness of these characters drowns out other possible embodiments of Italian American identity so that few examples survive of Italian Americans that do not conform to these classed, heterosexual modes of being. This volume fills that void, foregrounding the importance of representation and of rethinking the historical narratives and cultural stereotypes surrounding Italian American identity. This book is especially designed for those with an interest in queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, Italian American studies, and media and cultural studies.

Author : Paul Longley Arthur,Leena Kurvet-Kaosaar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317207306

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Border Crossings by Paul Longley Arthur,Leena Kurvet-Kaosaar Pdf

The border between intimate memory and historical revelation is explored in this wide-ranging collection, which features original contributions from leading figures in the life writing field from Australia, Canada, Europe, UK, and the USA. The transmission and preservation of personal knowledge and stories from generation to generation frequently requires crossing into the private, contested spaces of memory. The most secret accounts or guarded remnants of information can sometimes lead to the most profound insights. In this context, there is a delicate balance between life writing’s role in revealing lives and the desire to be respectful towards them. As the essays in this book attest, exposing secrets, even if humiliating, can be a way of honouring lives. Throughout runs the framing theme of memory as the source of all intergenerational transmission of culture and history—whether relating to family, community, nation, ancestry, or political allegiance—and the importance of the intimate and personal in that process of handing on. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.

Author : Katrina Srigley,Stacey Zembrzycki,Franca Iacovetta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351123808

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Beyond Women's Words by Katrina Srigley,Stacey Zembrzycki,Franca Iacovetta Pdf

Beyond Women’s Words unites feminist scholars, artists, and community activists working with the stories of women and other historically marginalized subjects to address the contributions and challenges of doing feminist oral history. Feminists who work with oral history methods want to tell stories that matter. They know, too, that the telling of those stories—the processes by which they are generated and recorded, and the different contexts in which they are shared and interpreted—also matters—a lot. Using Sherna Berger Gluck and Daphne Patai’s classic text, Women’s Words, as a platform to reflect on how feminisms, broadly defined, have influenced, and continue to influence, the wider field of oral history, this remarkable collection brings together an international, multi-generational, and multidisciplinary line-up of authors whose work highlights the great variety in understandings of, and approaches to, feminist oral histories. Through five thematic sections, the volume considers Indigenous modes of storytelling, feminism in diverse locales around the globe, different theoretical approaches, oral history as performance, digital oral history, and oral history as community-engagement. Beyond Women’s Words is ideal for students of oral history, anthropology, public history, women’s and gender history, and Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as activists, artists, and community-engaged practitioners.

Author : Katie Jones,Julian Preece,Aled Rees
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527561472

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International Perspectives on Multilingual Literatures by Katie Jones,Julian Preece,Aled Rees Pdf

This carefully curated collection of essays charts interactions between majority languages (including English, French, German, Italian and Japanese) and minority dialects or languages pushed to the margins (including Arabic, Bengali, Esperanto, Neapolitan and Welsh) through a series of case studies of leading modern and contemporary cultural producers. The contributors, who work and study across the globe, extend critical understanding of literary multilingualism to the subjects of migration and the exophonic, self-translation and the aesthetics of interlinguistic bricolage, language death and language perseveration, and power in linguistic hierarchies in (post-)colonial contexts. Their subjects include the authors Julia Alvarez, Elena Ferrante, Jonathan Franzen, Amélie Nothomb, Ali Smith, Yoko Tawada, and Dylan Thomas, the film-maker Ulrike Ottinger, and the anonymous performers of Griko. The volume will be of interest to students of creative writing, literature, translation, and sociolinguistics.

Author : Charles M. Anderson,Marian M. MacCurdy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015056929006

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Writing and Healing by Charles M. Anderson,Marian M. MacCurdy Pdf

Provides a unique occasion for teachers, scholars, and other professional to begin an open, serious conversation about the healing power of writing.

Author : Ina C. Seethaler
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438486215

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Lives beyond Borders by Ina C. Seethaler Pdf

A cross-cultural, comparative study of contemporary life writing by women who migrated to the United States from Mexico, Ghana, South Korea, and Iran, Lives beyond Borders broadens and deepens critical work on immigrant life writing. Ina C. Seethaler investigates how these autobiographical texts—through genre mixing, motifs of doubling, and other techniques—challenge stereotypes, social hierarchies, and the supposed fixity of identity and lend literary support to grassroots social justice efforts. Seethaler's approach to literary analysis is both interdisciplinary and accessible. While Lives beyond Borders draws on feminist theory, critical race theory, and disability and migration studies, it also uses stories to engage and interest readers in issues related to migration and social change. In so doing, the book reevaluates the purpose, form, and audience of immigrant life writing.

Author : Roberta Hurtado
Publisher : Springer
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030057312

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Decolonial Puerto Rican Women's Writings by Roberta Hurtado Pdf

This book explores representations of sentient-flesh — flesh that holds consciousness of being — in Puerto Rican women’s literature. It considers how different literary devices can participate in the decolonization of the flesh as it is obfuscated by mappings of the 'body' from the Enlightenment era and colonial endeavors. Drawing on studies of cognitive development and epigenetics to identify how sentient-flesh creates knowledge of power and navigates methods of subversion for social justice, this book grapples with the question of how Puerto Rican women, living in the nation of their colonizer, manifest an identity that exists beyond the scope of colonization. It makes the case for a change in perspective that illustrates the conceptual shift from survivors to thrivers to educators. To do so, it draws upon Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa’s theory in the flesh; Iris Lopez’s theories of trauma-knowledge; and María Lugones’s concept of 'world travelers' to retain the corporeal flesh and physical location in Latinas’ attempts to write subversion under U.S. colonization across racial, cultural, and ethnic boundaries, as well as the gendered-sexuality barriers identified by Emma Pérez. This project builds on their work to frame Latina literature within a new discussion of how corporeal, memory, and sentient experiences of identity must center sentient-flesh as the source of decolonial consciousness rather than relapsing into discourses of the 'body'.