Patrizia Sambuco

Corporeal Bonds (eBook, PDF)

The Daughter-Mother Relationship in Twentieth-Century Italian Women's Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

In Corporeal Bonds, Patrizia Sambuco analyses novels by authors such as Elsa Morante, Francesca Sanvitale, Mariateresa Di Lascia, and Elena Ferrante, each of which is narrated from the daughter's point of view and depicts the daughter's bond with the mother.

SambucoPatrizia:

Patrizia Sambuco is a lecturer in Italian Studies in the School of Languages, Cultures, and Linguistics at Monash University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442699496
• Artikelnr.: 48945331

Autorenporträt

Patrizia Sambuco is the editor of Transmissions of Memory and Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000 and the author of Corporeal Bonds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Psychoanalytic Accounts of Sexual Difference: Luce Irigaray and Italian
Feminism
The Denial of the Mother
The Mother Figure and the Maternal
Irigaray: Subjectivity and the Mother-Daughter Corporeal Bond
From Mothers to Daughters: The Italian Scene
Diotima and Luisa Muraro
Adriana Cavarero
2 Elsa Morante’s Menzogna e sortilegio: The Incorporeal Bond
Menzogna e sortilegio and the Critics
Motherhood and the Mother-Daughter Relationship: Cesira and Anna
Maternal Love: Rosaria and Alessandra
Elisa
3 Francesca Sanvitale’s Madre e figlia: Bodies of Pain and Imagination
Body as Object of Desire
The Male Hero
Medical Establishment: The Attack on the Body
Critique and Re-imagining
Writing, Imagination, and Language
Narrator, Character, and Author in Search of Identity
4 Mariateresa Di Lascia’s Passaggio in ombra: The Maternal as Expression of
Desire and Corporeality
Desire
Chiara
The Daughter within the Heterosexual Economy
Body and Knowledge
5 Elena Ferrante’s L’amore molesto: The Renegotiation of the Mother’s Body
Delia: The Love and Hatred of a Selfless Subject
Reconstructing the Past
The Language of Dresses
6 Elena Stancanelli’s Benzina: The Surreal Mother-Daughter Relationship and
New Possibilities
Elena Stancanelli and the Literary Scene, 1995–2000
Benzina 154
Mother and Daughter: Different Bodies, Different Personalities
A Relationship of Fusion and Independence
Oppressed Bodies in the Family Home
Looking, and Looking at Each Other
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index