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Articles for DWF
Women, poetry, culture: an interview with Adrienne Rich, 1979, n. 10-11,
pp. 211-220
Preceding the interview is a short biography of the American feminist poet, information on her education and on the work published up to now. The interview deals with the issues of the rise of a language apt to express female experience, of heterosexuality and lesbianism, of the work to be done in order to produce a permanent cultural change through women's contributions, of the overcoming of male as well as of feminist stereotypes, of the function of form in poetic communication, of the identification of a female tradition in poetry.
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Gertrude Stein, or of Change, 1986, n. 3, pp. 56-72
In this essay Gertrude Stein's work - and in particular her narratives Melanctha, Ada, Ida - are interpreted in the light of two related concepts/terms: chance and change, which are considered central to her idea of life-knowledge-art.
After acknowledging Stein's point of view, namely, that "Nobody enters the mind of someone else", M. Camboni selects clues and elements in the writer's later work that make up the change-chance paradigm. By using contemporary definitions of the two terms, she points out how Stein's conception of a creative mind is the result of her accurate analysis of a woman's ways of living and knowing.
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Ideology and Words, 1990, n. 12, pp. 79-90
The linguistic sign is seen as both psychic and social, personal and collective - in the words of Volosinov "a common land of psyche and ideology". This paper ideally continues the work carried on by the author some years ago with a group of Roman feminists; in particular, it is a critical homage to Alma Sabatini (who tragically died in a car accident two years ago) and to her work, which resulted in the publication of Il sessismo nella lingua italiana, commissioned by the National Committee for Equal Opportunities.
If today language is also a site of the conflict between the sexes, the author claims that the key to the problem lies in women attributing and recognizing value to other women and to themselves "lying bare the commonplaces and the expressions which contribute to the de-valuation of women's ways of being and operating… rooting words, thoughts, actions, in one's own being, experiencing, thinking".
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A conversation with Amelia Rosselli, 1996, n. 29, pp. 64-83
In February 1981 the great poet Amelia Rosselli, who died a suicide only a short time ago, opened the first poetry workshop of the women's cultural centre "donnawomanfemme"; Marina Camboni was then the president of the centre.
"This text - born out of that experience - is almost an autobiographical narrative; it moves through the life and artistic itinerary of a women who holds a special place in contemporary Italian literature. […] Retrieving the words of that conversation, now that she is gone, has been like discovering and accepting an inheritance".
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Alicia Ostriker: fighting with the Angel, 1999, n. 42-43, pp. 87-114
Camboni introduces the work of Alicia Suskin Ostriker, American poet and essay-writer active in the Women's Spirituality Movement, with an interview and a selection of her poems translated into Italian.
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Reviews for DWF
RICH Adrienne, Nato di donna, Milano, Garzanti, 1977
rev. by Marina Camboni, 1978, n. 9, pp. 161-163
GREEN Gayle - KAHN Coppelia (edited by), Making a Difference:
Feminist Literary Criticism, London e New York, Methuen, 1985
rev. by Marina Camboni, 1986, n. 3, pp. 116-121
MOI Toril, Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory, London
e New York, Methuen, 1985
rev. by Marina Camboni, 1986, n. 3, pp. 116-121
SHOWALTER Elaine (edited by), Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women. Literature
Theory, New york, Pantheon Books, 1985
rev. by Marina Camboni, 1986, n. 3, pp. 116-121
MARAINI Toni, Ultimo tè a Marrakesh, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 1994
rev. by Marina Camboni, 1995, n. 26-27, pp. 95-99
Translations for DWF
MALOS Ellen, Housework and the politics of women's liberation
tran. by Marina Camboni, 1979, n. 12-13, pp. 30-62