Confinement, and shifting boundaries in post-unification writing by women / Anna Hallamore Caesar -- Women writers confined: the case of Neera / Catherine Ramsey-Portolano -- Nineteenth century women writers between marginality and (aspirations of) inclusion: a puzzling balance / Cristina Gragnani and Ombretta Frau -- Sardinian confines in the works of Grazia Deledda / Rhianedd Jewell -- Boundaries, the work of writing and the female soul / Giuliana Morandini -- The dialogue with the dead in Patrizia Valduga's Requiem / Eleanor David -- Staging motherhood: considering Annie Vivanti's fact and fiction / Anne Urbancic -- The shadow of the author in La storia / Margherita Ganeri -- Topographies of identity / Rita Wilson -- Across languages, cultures and nations: Ribka Sibhatu's Aulò / Simone Brioni -- The mediation of borders, in Greta Vidal by Antonella Sbuelz Carignani / Donatella De Ferra -- Crossing boundaries and borders: Matilde Serao's travel writing / Patrizia Sambuco
Summary
This book investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today and considers the topics of boundaries and borders in their writings
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed February 17, 2015)