Sambuco, Patrizia, 1965-

Corporeal bonds the daughter-mother relationship in twentieth century Italian women's writing / Patrizia Sambuco. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012). - 1 online resource (vi, 215 pages) - Toronto Italian studies .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Psychoanalytic Accounts of Sexual Difference: Luce Irigaray and Italian Feminism -- Elsa Morante's Menzogna e sortilegio : The Incorporeal Bond -- Francesca Sanvitale's Madre e figlia : Bodies of Pain and Imagination -- Mariateresa Di Lascia's Passaggio in ombra : The Maternal as Expression of Desire and Corporeality -- Elena Ferrante's L'amore molesto : The Renegotiation of the Mother's Body -- Elena Stancanelli's Benzina : The Surreal Mother-Daughter Relationship and New Possibilities -- Conclusion.



9781442699496


Mothers and daughters in literature.
Italian fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Italian fiction--History and criticism.--20th century


Electronic Books.

PQ4174 / .C677 2012