Corporeal Bonds: The Daughter-Mother Relationship in Twentieth-Century Italian Women&rsquo;s Writing

Patrizia Sambuco

Published by University of Toronto Press 2012

Corporeal Bonds

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

Patrizia Sambuco

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442699496

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Sambuco Patrizia :

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

Reviews

Tommasina Gabriele, Department of Italian Studies, Wheaton College :
‘Corporeal Bonds makes a significant contribution to the field of women’s studies by positioning itself within a vibrant and longstanding debate on the importance of the mother in Italian feminist thought and in Italian women’s writing. Using a combination of literary analysis, psychoanalytic and feminist maternal theory, and comments by the authors, Patrizia Sambuco offers a reading of five well-known and important novels that re-evaluates and re-vindicates the importance of the mother, and in particular, a communication with her that is corporeal. Highly readable, easy to follow, and remarkably jargon free, her theorizations of corporeality within the framework of a daughter-mother bond will offer scholars much food for thought.’

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Psychoanalytic Accounts of Sexual Difference: Luce Irigaray and Italian Feminism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
2. Elsa Morante’s Menzogna e sortilegio: The Incorporeal Bond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. Francesca Sanvitale’s Madre e figlia: Bodies of Pain and Imagination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
4. Mariateresa Di Lascia’s Passaggio in ombra: The Maternal as Expression of Desire and Corporeality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
5. Elena Ferrante’s L’amore molesto: The Renegotiation of the Mother’s Body Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
6. Elena Stancanelli’s Benzina: The Surreal Mother-Daughter Relationship and New Possibilities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 256
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eBook

Published: September 28, 2012
ISBN: 9781442699496