Catherine Ramsey-Portolano

Gebundenes Buch

Performing Bodies

Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920)

Beschreibung

This book examines how in Italian literature and film, as well as in society, women were confined to traditional roles and illness often represented the consequence for transgressing those roles. Feigning illness offered women a way to "own" the illness and become masters of their bodies as well as their stories and destinies.

Autor

Catherine Ramsey-Portolano is associate professor and program director of Italian studies at The American University of Rome.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 375g
• ISBN-13: 9781683931317
• ISBN-10: 1683931319
• Artikelnr.: 49460633