Las damas del mar. Viajeras. emigrantes, literatas y artistas desde y hacia el Cono Sur en los siglos XIX y XX (original) (raw)

This project, carried out jointly by Italian and Argentinean researchers, had the main goal of studying the work of female writers and artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, from both countries, withr eference to cultural exchange, migration and female identity built through the dialogue between both shores: the Mediterranean one and the Rio de la Plata´s. The research was focused on the works by Eduarda Mansilla, Victoria Ocampo, Sara Gallardo, Luisa Valenzuela, Elena Bossi, Liliana Bellone, Mariangela Sedda, Renata Mambelli, Griselda Gambaro and Syria Poletti, in Literature, and Lola Mora, for Plastic Arts. The approach is organized around two axes: the cultural journey (which may be a formative professional journey of uncertain length), and emigration/immigration (not only in first degree but also in second degree direct or indirect, through the protagonists themselves, migrants´ descendants, or members of the community that refer to life stories in-between Argentina and Italy, ...