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Women in Transition Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Borders. Edited by by Maria-José Blanco and Claire Williams., 2021

Abstract Following the global success of Elena Ferrante’s quadrilogy L’amica geniale (2011-14), k... more Abstract
Following the global success of Elena Ferrante’s quadrilogy L’amica geniale (2011-14), known in Anglophone countries as the Neapolitan Novels (2012-15), critics have been investigating those aspects that make it an example of the ‘Global Novel’ or ‘World Literature’. Contrary to this trend, I offer a subjective and situated reading that examines the challenges that the quadrilogy has posed for me, a female academic from the Neapolitan region who works in an English university. Thus, I develop a critical practice of surface reading, or reading with the grain, based on my own reader response and with a non-professional readership in mind. In the process of scrutinizing my own identifications and resistances, I assess the transformative potential of the story and of the protagonists’ lives. My discussion is driven by the question of whether and how reading the Neapolitan Novels moves me, and possibly other readers, to reflect, question, and change.

The Italianist, 2005

Fabrizia Ramondino&amp;amp;#x27;s playful remark that in Neapolitan dialect the word j me... more Fabrizia Ramondino&amp;amp;#x27;s playful remark that in Neapolitan dialect the word j means both &amp;amp;#x27;io&amp;amp;#x27; and &amp;amp;#x27;andarsene&amp;amp;#x27;, and that, as a consequence, &amp;amp;#x27;in quel dialetto insomma io se ne poteva andare&amp;amp;#x27;,1 conveys the essence of her literary project: the investigation into a subjectivity which ...

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Tatiana Crivelli: Scrivo dalla Svizzera, da un territorio che può essere considerato zona margina... more Tatiana Crivelli: Scrivo dalla Svizzera, da un territorio che può essere considerato zona marginale fuori d'Italia e d'Europa oppure fertile (non)luogo di transizione e di incontro fra culture e lingue diverse.1 Questa peculiarità culturale costituisce un terreno estremamente adatto allo ...

Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 1990

Commonly referred to collectively as the anni di piombo - years of lead - the 1970s have been see... more Commonly referred to collectively as the anni di piombo - years of lead - the 1970s have been seen as a parenthesis in Italian history, which was dominated by political violence and terrorism. The seventeen essays in this wide-ranging collection adopt different scholarly ...

Giorgio, A., 2002. Writing the mother-daughter relationship: psychoanalysis, culture, and literar... more Giorgio, A., 2002. Writing the mother-daughter relationship: psychoanalysis, culture, and literary criticism. In: Giorgio, A., ed. Writing Mothers and Daughters: Renegotiating the Mother in Western European Narratives by Women. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 11-45. ... Full text not available ...

Giorgio, A., 2006. From little girls to bad girls: women's writing and experimentalism in th... more Giorgio, A., 2006. From little girls to bad girls: women's writing and experimentalism in the 1970s and 1990s. In: Cento Bull, A. and Giorgio, A., eds. Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s. Oxford: Legenda, p. 95. ... Full text not available from ...

… Letteratura e azienda. Rappresentazioni letterarie dell' …, 2010

... Anche nell‟ultimo romanzo di Fabrizia Ramondino (1936-2008), La Via (2008), troviamo delle ri... more ... Anche nell‟ultimo romanzo di Fabrizia Ramondino (1936-2008), La Via (2008), troviamo delle rispondenze con le teorizzazioni del pensiero meridiano ... pensiero meridiano è la sua collocazione geografica al punto di incontro tra la terra e il mare la costa , una collocazione ...

Italian Studies, 1993

Fabrizia Ramondino (1936) is a writer whose prose conjures up a magical and mesmerizing world, wh... more Fabrizia Ramondino (1936) is a writer whose prose conjures up a magical and mesmerizing world, which she scrutinizes in every detail and describes with a respect for authenticity which never falters. 1Whichever of her books we open, we are transported in the course of the ...

MLN, 1994

Nature vs Culture: Repression, Rebellion and Madness in Elsa Morante's Aracoeli Adalgisa... more Nature vs Culture: Repression, Rebellion and Madness in Elsa Morante's Aracoeli Adalgisa Giorgio In a recent volume on Italian women writers, two consecutive arti-cles appear putting forward two diametrically opposed views of Elsa Morante's treatment of motherhood. ...

Journal of Romance Studies, 2010

What happens to the object and idea of house/home in a world of inner displacement and geographic... more What happens to the object and idea of house/home in a world of inner displacement and geographical uprooting? This article looks at the representation of house/home in Marosia Castaldi"s novel Per quante vite (1999) [For How Many Lives], focusing on the coincidence between house and psyche highlighting the protagonist"s spatial dislocation, the loss of the maternal body leading to "homelessness" and lack of memory, and the attempt to overcome this condition by creating alternative homes in the body and writing. Castaldi deploys a poetics of absence-presence and full-void that signifies both her protagonist"s neurosis and the remedies for it: her body"s capacity to contain and generate life and a writing practice that fills books with the matter of life and finds in books templates for life. The article argues that Castaldi"s protagonist succeeds in realizing the feminist project of "giving birth to the world" pursued by feminist philosophers of difference. among others, are not to be found in Italian women"s writing. In Italy as in other European countries and in America, nineteenth-century middle-class women were subjected to opposing pressures: at the same time as they were encouraged to develop their capacities and were given opportunities for selfimprovement, they were also expected to devote themselves to the moral and physical well-being of the family (Chi 1999: 88). The protagonist of Charlotte Perkins Gilman"s "The yellow wallpaper" (1892) is confined, by her physician husband, to the attic as a therapy against her nervous breakdown: her physical incarceration is accompanied by a prohibition to write, an activity that he believes will exacerbate her condition.

Women's Studies International Forum, 2015

This essay examines a strand of 1970s Italian narratives which combines the linguistic and formal... more This essay examines a strand of 1970s Italian narratives which combines the linguistic and formal experimentation of 1960s neo-avant-garde with a critique of capitalist bourgeois ideology that silenced women characteristic of 1970s 'feminist realist' writing. The work of Alice Ceresa, Leila Baiardo and Silvana Castelli demonstrates that both strands of 1970s women's narrative initiated the process of writing female desire which has been a fundamental concern of women writers ever since. The essay hypothesizes the existence of a line of Italian anti-realist women's writing originating in the 1960s and 1970s and finding its point of arrival in 1990s youth narrative.

Women's Studies International Forum, 2015

Women in Transition Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Borders. Edited by by Maria-José Blanco and Claire Williams., 2021

The Italianist, 2005

Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 1990

… Letteratura e azienda. Rappresentazioni letterarie dell' …, 2010

Italian Studies, 1993

MLN, 1994

Journal of Romance Studies, 2010

Women's Studies International Forum, 2015

The Modern Language Review, 1993

... molto giovane piccola e magra piccole mammelle capelli neri crespi e corti scatto libero e fe... more ... molto giovane piccola e magra piccole mammelle capelli neri crespi e corti scatto libero e felice del corpo sottana blu, blusa di lana rossa modo buffo e timido fumava molto si dava il nero alle ciglia metteva moltissima cipria teneva i cassetti in disordine non sa fare la spesa ...

The Italianist, 1991

Fabrizia Ramondino' s long-standing passion for literature and writing remained a secret unt... more Fabrizia Ramondino' s long-standing passion for literature and writing remained a secret until the publication in 1981 of her novel Althenopis which immediately established her reputation as a sensitive .and skilful writer.! Until then, she had been known as a political activist and ...

Women's Studies International Forum, 1994

Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2009

Women's Studies International Forum, 1996

Book Reviews 687 n't confirm Clinton's misgivings. The book's informative introduction, the choic... more Book Reviews 687 n't confirm Clinton's misgivings. The book's informative introduction, the choice and arrangements of essays, and the fact that, though not purposely written for the collection, the authors are involved in a dialogue makes the collection a rewarding reading. It can confïdently be recommended to teachers, scholars, and students of women's history. FEMINIST FOREMOTHERS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES, PSYCH-OLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTH, edited by Phyllis Chesler, Esther Rothblum, and Ellen Cole, 541 pages. Harrington Park Press, 1995. US$29.95.

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Women Stud Int Forum, 1994

Journal of Romance Studies, 2015

IDENTITÀ ITALIANA E CIVILTÀ GLOBALE ALL'INIZIO …

Minori a Napoli tra globale e locale:voci e autorappresentazioni dopo Gomorra * NC 12.2016

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Page 1. Bulletin of the Society for Italian Studies a journal for teachers of Italian in higher e... more Page 1. Bulletin of the Society for Italian Studies a journal for teachers of Italian in higher education Edited by George Talbot Philip Cooke Jonathan Dunnage Dorothy Glenn Adalgisa Giorgio Number 30 1997 Page 2. Bulletin of the Society for Italian Studies 1997 Editorial ...

Social Identities, 2020

New Zealand's indigenous Māori were colonized by the British (now referred to as Pākehā). Sca... more New Zealand's indigenous Māori were colonized by the British (now referred to as Pākehā). Scant systematic investigation addresses bicultural/biracial identity for Māori who identify with ethnic groups other than Pākehā. Taking a narrative approach and applying thematic analysis, this paper explores interviews with forty-four Māori Italians, conducted in New Zealand in 2013. We show how Māori Italians negotiate the challenge of constructing positive ethnic identities in a milieu where ethnic hybridity has been defined primarily in relation to the Māori-Pākehā colonial encounter. Focusing on racism and stigma, we demonstrate that Māori Italians run a gauntlet of identity challenges shaped by socio-political contexts. Conversely, Māori Italians draw boundaries between themselves and the dominant Pākehā culture and draw from both Māori and Italian identities to buffer discrimination from Māori, Pākehā, and Italians. Our analysis reveals a multiplicity of interpretations of Māori-It...

Altreitalie, 2015

The short pieces presented here all originate in a workshop entitled The Stereotype Abroad: Mammi... more The short pieces presented here all originate in a workshop entitled The Stereotype Abroad: Mammismo in the Italian Diaspora held in Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) in May 2014. The workshop formed part of a wider interdisciplinary project – La Mamma: Interrogating a National Stereotype – funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to investigate the role and representations of Italian mothers, and, in particular, the stereotype of mammismo (the strong Italian mother who overindulges her sons). Whilst the three other workshops in the series (held in Dundee, Glasgow and Rome) focused on mothers in Italy itself (both in the past and in the present), the Edinburgh meeting looked beyond Italy to the experience of motherhood, and discourse about it, in migrant communities. After an introduction by the workshop organisers (Penelope Morris and Perry Willson), this forum includes two contributions on migrant motherhood in the US (by Maria Susanna Garroni and Silvia Barocci), one on New Zea...

RESUMEN: El objetivo de la presente investigación es aportar un enfoque innovador para la clasifi... more RESUMEN: El objetivo de la presente investigación es aportar un enfoque innovador para la clasificación de las cooperativas de crédito, utilizando para ello la metodología multicriterio, que permite valorar y combinar conjuntamente las variables económicas, tradicionalmente utilizadas en el análisis de instituciones financieras, y las sociales, cuya inclusión se considera imprescindible dadas las características de las entidades estudiadas. Con dicho objetivo se han estudiado las 80 cooperativas de crédito censadas en España a 31 de diciembre de 2009, utilizando datos de panel correspondientes al período 2006-2009, con el objetivo de medir su desempeño económico-social, previo al inicio de los proceso de consolidación acaecidos en el sector e iniciados en diciembre de 2009. Con los resultados obtenidos se ofrecerá una clasificación de bancos cooperativos que permitirá estudiar cuestiones tan relevantes como la relación existente entre el desempeño económico-financiero de la entidad y el cumplimiento de su función social.

Giorgio, A., 2007. 'Allegorie' di Napoli. Marosia Castaldi e Giuseppe Montesano tra tra... more Giorgio, A., 2007. 'Allegorie' di Napoli. Marosia Castaldi e Giuseppe Montesano tra tradizione e innovazione. Nuova Corvina, 19, pp. 121-139. ... This repository does not currently have a copy of this item. You may be able to access the fulltext if URLs are provided below.

This article compares two novels, Pascale’s Passa la bellezza (2005) and Ramondino’s La Via (2008... more This article compares two novels, Pascale’s Passa la bellezza (2005) and Ramondino’s La Via (2008), on the issues of Southern identity in relation to work, community, development, sustainability and care (of people and place). Both novels are examples of a recent trend in Italian narrative to provide political, sociological, and anthropological analyses of contemporary Italy. I test the usefulness of Franco Cassano’s ‘Meridian’ philosophy as an interpretative tool for these two novels on the grounds that they underscore the cultural specificity of the Southern Italian area in which they are set. In particular, I engage with ‘slowness’ (thus with time and by implication space) and ‘measure’, two of Cassano’s traditional Mediterranean values which, having been suppressed, must be reconstructed, to counter the capitalist values of excessive production and accumulation of wealth. Cassano’s philosophy enables me to bring to light the texts’ engagement with postmodern issues of travel, mi...

Ethnicity is a key variable in social science research and is often assumed to be a stable constr... more Ethnicity is a key variable in social science research and is often assumed to be a stable construct. Yet, for more and more individuals in New Zealand’s diversified society, ethnicity is flexible and individuals may choose to change and adapt their ethnic identities contingent on social contexts. Using material from narrative interviews with 44 Māori Italians conducted in New Zealand in 2013, this paper explores the relevance of the social identity theoretical approach for understanding the construction of mixed ethnic identities. Employing an interactionist conceptualisation of identity expression, our findings disclose four thematic patterns by which participants assert positive mixed ethnic identities that allow them to align with desirable notions of what it means to be Māori, Italian, and Māori Italian and to differentiate themselves from what they perceive as the less positive aspects of the dominant New Zealand culture.

This chapter examines the reception of Neapolitan women writers in England, using the case study ... more This chapter examines the reception of Neapolitan women writers in England, using the case study of Fabrizia Ramondino, and working towards a new approach to recent representations of Naples by women writers. These are the steps of my argument: • The different interest in, reception of, and approach to women writers in Italian vs Anglophone, and specifically British, academic institutions since the 1970s. • Fabrizia Ramondino as a writer that illustrates the shifts in theoretical-methodological approaches to women writers, from psychological-discursive to cultural, from female thematics to issues in cultural identities. • Recent analysis of the representations of the South, Naples, and Neapolitan identity aiming at bringing to the fore the construction and emergence of stereotypes and the attempts of contemporary writers to move beyond the stereotypes in order to take Naples out of eulogizing or demonising representations. • The need for a new approach Naples that retains and combin...

The article contests the recent Italian literary debate on the exhaustion of postmodernism as a l... more The article contests the recent Italian literary debate on the exhaustion of postmodernism as a literary practice and the emergence of new realisms. My contention is that the participants in the debate refer to a narrow literary canon which ignores large areas of the Italian ...