Contemporary Italian Women's Narrative

What is it about?

Since the beginning of the 1980s, scholars of Italian literature have devoted a considerable amount of criticism to women's writing. The increased attention to female voices in literary studies confirms both the acceptance of gender as a category of analysis and the recognition of women authors as contributors to the canon. Yet much of this critical writing is concerned with the authors who arguably were already part of the canon before this renewed interest in women's writing, for example, Grazia Deledda, Matilde Serao, Elsa Morante, and Natalia Ginzburg, while relatively little has been written on the large body of work produced from the late 1970s. This study is an attempt to foster critical awareness of more recent Italian women writers by offering a reading of a wide range of women novelists writing in the …

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