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