Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture

1. Introduction

Part I: Poetry

2. The Broken Language of High Poetry: Agency and Emotion in Teresino by Vivian Lamarque

     Enrico Minardi

3. Re-Appropriation for a New Symbolic Order: The Search for Identity in the Poetry of Armanda Guiducci, Maria Luisa Spaziani, and Oliva Gualtieri Bernardi

    Rosa Cuda

Part II: Cinema

4. Mambo and Maggiorate: Italian Female Stardom in the 1950s

   Elisa Uffreduzzi

   Paola Valentini

6. Beyond the Male Gaze: Conceiving the 'Fourth Gaze' in La bestia nel cuore

   Ryan Calabretta-Sajder

Part III: Theatre < <

7.  From Fairy Tale to Hysteria: Women in Italian Theatre in the Early 1950s

     Daniela Cavallero 

8. Telling Lives, Staging Silences: Dacia Maraini's Biographical Theater

     Alex Standen

9.  Staging the (Sur)real World: Soledad Agresti's Theater of Women

    Raffaele Furno

Part IV: Prose

10. Writing History, Trauma, and the (Dis/Re)Appearance of the Body in Cutrufelli's La briganta

     Sandra Walters

11. The Treasure Chest and the Talisman: Writing between Reality and Myth in Maria Giacobbe

    Angela Guiso

12. Space and Sexualization in the Fin de Siècle Italian Female Narrative

    Anna Marchioni Cucchiella

Notes on Contributors