{"product_id":"rewriting-the-journey-in-contemporary-italian-literature-9780802097897","title":"Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mobility of women is a central issue in feminist analysis of literary works and historical periods. \u003cem\u003eRewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature\u003c\/em\u003e explores the concept of the journey from feminist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial perspectives, in order to offer an alternative understanding of moving. Cinzia Sartini Blum examines the new literature of migration in Italian and journeys in the works of Biancamaria Frabotta, Dacia Maraini, Toni Maraini, and Maria Pace Ottieri, to demonstrate that women writers and migrant authors in contemporary Italy present journeys as events that are beyond heroic modern exploration and postmodern fragmentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing the mythical figure of Gradiva, Blum shows how contemporary Italian women writers have reinvented Gradiva to reveal subjectivities that challenge and overcome the postmodern melancholia and nihilism prevalent in contemporary male writers and thinkers. She also considers the connection between metaphorical a\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MY - University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534980350295,"sku":"9780802097897","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802097897.jpg?v=1755858431","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rewriting-the-journey-in-contemporary-italian-literature-9780802097897","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}