{"product_id":"corporeal-bonds-9781442644250","title":"Corporeal Bonds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mother-daughter relationship is a popular theme in contemporary Italian writing but has never before been analysed in a comprehensive book-length study. In \u003cem\u003eCorporeal Bonds\u003c\/em\u003e, Patrizia Sambuco analyses novels by authors such as Elsa Morante, Francesca Sanvitale, Mariateresa Di Lascia, and Elena Ferrante, each of which is narrated from the daughter’s point of view and depicts the daughter’s bond with the mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighlighting the recurrent images throughout these works, Sambuco traces these back to alternative forms of communication between mother and daughter, as well as to the female body. Sambuco also explores the attempts of the daughter-narrators to define a female self that is outside the constrictions of patriarchal society. Through these investigations, \u003cem\u003eCorporeal Bonds\u003c\/em\u003e identifies a strong connection between the ideas of post-Lacanian critical theorists, Italian feminist thinkers, and the stories within the novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   Introduction   1 Psychoanalytic Accounts of Sexual Difference: Luce Irigaray and Italian Feminism   The Denial of the Mother  The Mother Figure and the Maternal  Irigaray: Subjectivity and the Mother-Daughter Corporeal Bond  From Mothers to Daughters: The Italian Scene  Diotima and Luisa Muraro  Adriana Cavarero  2 Elsa Morante's Menzogna e sortilegio: The Incorporeal Bond   Menzogna e sortilegio and the Critics  Motherhood and the Mother-Daughter Relationship: Cesira and Anna  Maternal Love: Rosaria and Alessandra  Elisa  3 Francesca Sanvitale's Madre e figlia: Bodies of Pain and Imagination   Body as Object of Desire  The Male Hero  Medical Establishment: The Attack on the Body  Critique and Re-imagining  Writing, Imagination, and Language  Narrator, Character, and Author in Search of Identity  4 Mariateresa Di Lascia's Passaggio in ombra: The Maternal as Expression of Desire and Corporeality   Desire  Chiara  The Daughter within the Heterosexual Economy  Body and Knowledge  5 Elena Ferrante's L'amore molesto: The Renegotiation of the Mother's Body   Delia: The Love and Hatred of a Selfless Subject  Reconstructing the Past  The Language of Dresses  6 Elena Stancanelli's Benzina: The Surreal Mother-Daughter Relationship and New Possibilities   Elena Stancanelli and the Literary Scene, 1995-2000  Benzina 154  Mother and Daughter: Different Bodies, Different Personalities  A Relationship of Fusion and Independence  Oppressed Bodies in the Family Home  Looking, and Looking at Each Other  Conclusion   Notes   Bibliography   Index","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359425659223,"sku":"9781442644250","price":42.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442644250.jpg?v=1754124610","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/corporeal-bonds-9781442644250","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}