Italian Women Writers from the Renaissance to the Present

Contents. Introduction. Revising the Canon: Italian Women Writers/Maria O. Marotti. Part I: Canon Formation/Canon Revision. 1. Women Writers and the Canon in Contemporary Italy/JoAnn Cannon. 2. From One Closet to Another. Feminism, Literary Archaeology, and the Canon/Beverly Allen. 3. Italian "Difference Theory" A New Canon. /Renate Holub. Part II: Renaissance Women: Rethinking the Canon. 4. Renaissance Women Defending Women: Arguments Against Patriarchy/Constance Jordan. 5. Selling the Self, or the Epistolary Production of Renaissance Courtesans/Fiora A. Bassanese. Part III: At the Turn of the Century: Women Writers at the Margins of the Canon. 6. Double Marginality: Matilde Serao and the Politics of Ambiguity/Nancy Harrowitz. 7. The Diaries of Sibilla Aleramo: Constructing Female Subjectivity/Bernadette Luciano. 8. Narrative Voice and the Regional Experience: Redefining Female Images in the Works of Maria Messina/Elise Magistro. Part IV: Contemporary Women Writers: Toward a New Canon. 9. Brushing Benjamin Against the Grain: Elsa Morante and the Jetzeit. of Marginal History/Maurizia Boscagli. 10. From Genealogy to Gynealogy and Beyond: Fausta Cialente's Le Quattro Ragazze Wieselberger. /Graziella Parati. 11. Ethnic Matriarchy: Fabrizia Ramondino's Neapolitan World/Maria Ornella Marotti. 12. Mythic Revisionism: Women Poets and Philosophers in Italy Today/Lucia Re. Part V: Women as Filmmakers: Images of Women/Images by Women/Images for Women. 13. Monica Vitti: The Image and the Word/Marga Cottino-Jones. 14. Signifying the Holocaust: Liliana Cavani's Portiere di notte. /Marguerite Waller.