Given that race is a socio-historical and political construction, this work argues that race is also a narrative construction. Examining the construction of race in works by Italian authors since national unification (Deledda, Serao, Ginzburg and Ghermandi), the book finds certain elements to be common in both racial and narrative formations. These include intertextuality; characterization, plot, and tropes; the tension between the projections of identity as individual, group, and universal; and the processes of identification and otherness.
Given that race is a socio-historical and political construction, this work argues that race is also a narrative construction. Examining the construction of race in works by Italian authors since national unification (Deledda, Serao, Ginzburg and Ghermandi), the book finds certain elements to be common in both racial and narrative formations. These include intertextuality; characterization, plot, and tropes; the tension between the projections of identity as individual, group, and universal; and the processes of identification and otherness.
Melissa Coburn is assistant professor of Italian at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction. Race as Narration: Studies of Italian Women's Writings Since Unification Chapter One. Grazia Deledda's Narrative Negotiations with the Racialization of Sardinian Character Chapter Two. The Tropics of Race in the Land of Cockayne Chapter Three. The Irreducible Individual and the Ethics of Writing in Natalia Ginzburg's Lessico famigliare Chapter Four. "We Are Stories of Stories in History": Re-imagining Community as Narrative in Regina di fiori e di perle by Gabriella Ghermandi Conclusions. The Persistent Past: Haunting as Metaphor for Racism in Texts from Deledda to Ghermandi Bibliography
Introduction. Race as Narration: Studies of Italian Women's Writings Since Unification Chapter One. Grazia Deledda's Narrative Negotiations with the Racialization of Sardinian Character Chapter Two. The Tropics of Race in the Land of Cockayne Chapter Three. The Irreducible Individual and the Ethics of Writing in Natalia Ginzburg's Lessico famigliare Chapter Four. "We Are Stories of Stories in History": Re-imagining Community as Narrative in Regina di fiori e di perle by Gabriella Ghermandi Conclusions. The Persistent Past: Haunting as Metaphor for Racism in Texts from Deledda to Ghermandi Bibliography
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