Tigress in the Snow: Motherhood and Literature in Twentieth-Century Italy

Laura Benedetti

Published by University of Toronto Press 2009

Tigress in the Snow

Motherhood and Literature in Twentieth-Century Italy

Laura Benedetti

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442685024

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The Tigress in the Snow explores how literature reacted to, influenced, and shaped the evolving notion of motherhood in twentieth-century Italy.

Author / Editor information

Benedetti Laura :

Laura Benedetti is the Laura and Gaetano De Sole associate professor in Contemporary Italian Culture at Georgetown University.

Reviews

Pietro Frassica, Department of French and Italian, Princeton University:

'The Tigress in the Snow provides a complete overview of Italian women writers in the twentieth century, as well as individual treatments of particular writers, their major works, and their literary characteristics. It is the first study to deal exclusively with the subject of motherhood and Italian literature, and it does so with a clear understanding of the cultural background out of which the writers dealt with conceived their works. Laura Benedetti's writing is extremely engaging and vivid, and reading her work is not only informative but a real pleasure.'

Carol Lazzaro-Weis, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Missouri-Columbia:
’Laura Benedetti has written a well-documented and informative study illuminating the importance of motherhood in understanding the ’difference‘ in Italian women's writings as well as the ’difference‘ in Italian feminist theory. She presents a broad and comprehensive picture of the complex interaction between different generations of women writers, their male counterparts, and changes in Italian culture throughout the twentieth century. The Tigress in the Snow delivers insightful literary analyses that will be of great use to students and scholars.‘

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter 1. Mothers at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Chapter 2. Resilience and Resistance: The Fascist Years Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 3. Questioning Motherhood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Chapter 4. Struggling with the Mother Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Chapter 5. Mothers without Children Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
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Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 176

eBook

Published: December 31, 2009
ISBN: 9781442685024