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Italian feminist novel in 70-ies, 1977, n. 5, pp. 55-74
Novels and short stories impressed by feminism, according to the Author, not only reflect the realities of present social and political context - as represents the women's movement - but are also an instrument of diffusion on a large scale of feminine conscience. To feminist narration - for its nature of production "autre" - one cannot apply the customary instruments of literary research.
The text has to be read and evaluated on the grounds of its historical and cultural significance, renouncing esthetical prejudices and aprioristical aversions owing to "conventional" code of interpretation. An analysis of feminist literary production, in a particular way of narration, has to insist mainly on the interdependence with the political movement. Indeed, the lines and contents of the most recent italian feminist narration - in this essay are considered the novels of Dacia Maraini, Giuliana Ferri, Armanda Guiducci, Luisella Fiumi, Gabriella Magrini and Carla Cerati - relate to the topics dealt with by the women's movement.
The main topic is that of division between public and private sphere and the possibility of recomposition. This subject in the novel appears as a personal report in some cases in the form of a diary of auto-conscience, shouted out in the novels of Dacia Maraini, written in a tormented way in the other writers. According to the author, the fact that the writers speak in the first person and use a memorial technique constitute the main characters of feminist novel which using the autobiography as a means of knowledge, seems to display the narration level the forms of auto-analysis used by the feminist movement in the political struggle.
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NOZZOLI Anna, Tabù e coscienza, la condizione femminile nella letteratura
italiana del Novecento, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1978
rev. by Ambra Somaschini, 1978, n. 9, pp. 166-168