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Author : E. O. S.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Isolina; Or, The Actor's Daughter written by E. O. S. and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : JoAnn Cannon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802091148
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Novel as Investigation written by JoAnn Cannon and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective fiction is a universally popular genre; stories about the investigation of a crime by a detective are published all over the world and in hundreds of languages. Detective fiction provides more than entertainment, however; it often has a great deal to say about crime and punishment, justice and injustice, testimony and judgment. The Novel as Investigation examines a group of detective novels by three important Italian writers - Leonardo Sciascia, Dacia Maraini, and Antonio Tabucchi - whose conviction about the ethical responsibility of the writer manifests itself in their investigative fiction. Jo-Ann Cannon explores each writer's denunciation of societal ills in two complementary texts. These investigative novels shed light on pressing social ills, which are not particular to Italian society of the late twentieth century but are universal in scope: Sciascia focuses on abuses of power and the death penalty, Maraini on violence against women, Tabucchi on torture and police brutality. In addition, each of these texts self-reflexively explore the role of writing in society. Sciascia, Maraini, and Tabucchi all use their fiction to defend the power of the pen to address "il male del mondo." The Novel as Investigation will be of interest to a broad audience of readers, including those interested in Italian and comparative literature, Italian social history, and cultural studies.
Author : Tommasina Gabriele
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611478820
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Dacia Maraini’s Narratives of Survival written by Tommasina Gabriele and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dacia Maraini’s Narratives of Survival: (Re)Constructed focuses on Dacia Maraini’s narrative from about 1984 to 2004 and makes substantive use of her interviews and essays. While acknowledging the importance and ongoing validity of feminist scholarship of Maraini’s work, this book seeks to take scholarship on Maraini beyond feminist readings by identifying a critical framework that cuts across gender and genre and thereby invites alternative readings. Using a method of close textual analysis, the author includes studies of men, children, animals, and imaginary characters in Maraini’s narrative, analyzes language, character, motifs, and symbols, and considers some of Maraini’s work in light of declining postmodern and emerging posthuman critical social theory. This critical framework identifies the paradigm of reconstruction as narrative center, both strategy and theme, of many of Maraini’s works from this twenty-year-period and beyond. Reconstruction here signifies the strategies by which Maraini’s deep investment in survival, which has its roots in the life threatening conditions she experienced as a small child in a WWII Japanese concentration camp, is enacted in a narrative re-building and re-constructing of personal memory, of various personal, social and political histories, of motherhood and maternal discourses, of crime stories, of postmodern fragmentation, and even of the process of erasure itself. Maraini’s narrative is deeply attentive to the mechanisms that threaten survival of the body (and not just the woman’s body); psychological and aesthetic survival; the survival in the Italian canon of a woman author’s work, memory and legacy after her death; the survival of a drug-addicted and self-destructive younger generation; and by extension, collective and ecological survival. Never marked by nihilism or despair, Maraini’s narratives offer the ethos of reconstruction as a variation on the “begin again” that marks the end of many of her novels and, as we can see in Colomba, her own aesthetic process of renewal and regeneration. This book focuses primarily on Il treno per Helsinki (1984), Isolina (1985), some of her short stories for children, La nave per Kobe: Diari giapponesi di mia madre (2001), Buio (Strega Literary Prize, 1999), and Colomba (2004).
Author : Vicki L. Ruiz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253111692
Total Pages : 909 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Latinas in the United States, set written by Vicki L. Ruiz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-03 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia records the contribution of women of Latin American birth or heritage to the economic and cultural development of the United States. The encyclopedia, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez-Korrol, is the first comprehensive gathering of scholarship on Latinas. This encyclopedia will serve as an essential reference for decades to come. In more than 580 entries, the historical and cultural narratives of Latinas come to life. From mestizo settlement, pioneer life, and diasporic communities, the encyclopedia details the contributions of women as settlers, comadres, and landowners, as organizers and nuns. More than 200 scholars explore the experiences of Latinas during and after EuroAmerican colonization and conquest; the early-19th-century migration of Puerto Ricans and Cubans; 20th-century issues of migration, cultural tradition, labor, gender roles, community organization, and politics; and much more. Individual biographical entries profile women who have left their mark on the historical and cultural landscape. With more than 300 photographs, Latinas in the United States offers a mosaic of historical experiences, detailing how Latinas have shaped their own lives, cultures, and communities through mutual assistance and collective action, while confronting the pressures of colonialism, racism, discrimination, sexism, and poverty. "Meant for scholars and general readers, this is a great resource on Latinas and historical topics connected with them." -- curledup.com
Author : Puerto Rico. Supreme Court
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Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Porto Rico written by Puerto Rico. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Puerto Rico. Supreme Court
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Total Pages : 722 pages
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Download or read book Puerto Rico Reports ... written by Puerto Rico. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria Ornella Marotti
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838637715
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (377 download)
Download or read book Gendering Italian Fiction written by Maria Ornella Marotti and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an exploration of the innovative ways in which three generations of women writers in modern Italy have dealt with history - both as narration of events and the events themselves. The essays challenge traditional historiography and foster a rereading of history based on the tenets of feminist historicism. They also claim a central role for fiction in the construction of women's history and in a rereading of Italian history.
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544283228
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (442 download)
Download or read book Italian Folktales written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Times’s Ten Best Books of the Year: These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are “a treasure” (Los Angeles Times). Filled with kings and peasants, saints and ogres—as well as some quite extraordinary plants and animals—these two hundred tales bring to life Italy’s folklore, sometimes with earthy humor, sometimes with noble mystery, and sometimes with the playfulness of sheer nonsense. Selected and retold by one of the country’s greatest literary icons, “this collection stands with the finest folktale collections anywhere” (The New York Times Book Review). “For readers of any age . . . A masterwork.” —The Wall Street Journal “A magic book, and a classic to boot.” —Time
Author : Dacia Maraini
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Isolina written by Dacia Maraini and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating shockwaves when first published in Italy eight years ago, this is a historical novel based on a true account of a grisly murder in turn-of-the-century Verona. In her relentless narrative based on interviews and contemporary accounts, Maraini has brought a long-submerged story of injustice and oppression to light. The fact that Isolina became pregnant by her lieutenant lover and refused to have an abortion was published in newspapers after the murder. Also known, but not reported, was the suspicion that she was probably murdered by soldiers who, protecting their comrade's reputation, tried to abort the pregnancy. The crime could easily have been solved, but evidence was destroyed by the state in efforts to defend the image of the military. Dacia Maraini is one of the best known writers in Italy. Her previous prize-winning novel, The Silent Duchess, sold 200,000 copies in Italy and was on the bestseller list for seventy weeks.
Author : Gillian Weiss
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554582970
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Trying to Get It Back written by Gillian Weiss and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to Get It Back: Indigenous Women, Education and Culture examines aspects of the lives of six women from three generations of two indigenous families. Their combined memories, experiences and aspirations cover the entire twentieth century. The first family, Pearl McKenzie, Pauline Coulthard and Charlene Tree are a mother, daughter and granddaughter of the Adnyamathanha people of the Flinders Range in South Australia. The second family consists of Bernie Sound, her neice Valerie Bourne and Valerie's daughter, Brandi McLeod - Sechelt women from British Columbia, Canada. They talk to G.
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Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (471 download)
Download or read book New Monthly Magazine and Humorist written by and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Campbell
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Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register written by Thomas Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Standish
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570033902
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (339 download)
Download or read book Understanding Julio Cortázar written by Peter Standish and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the twentieth-century Argentine writer Cortazar is analyzed by Standish (foreign languages and literature, East Carolina U., Greenville), who writes with the assurance of his long familiarity with the author's work. Of the eight chapters, the first is devoted to Cortazar's life, the remainder to his writing, which is divided chronologically and by genre. Cortazar's own writing on literature and his controversial political identity each merit separate chapters. c. Book News Inc.
Author : Dacia Maraini
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889204322
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)
Download or read book My Husband written by Dacia Maraini and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2004-03-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Italy, as in most Western cultures, the 1960s was a dynamic and turbulent decade of social change. Dacia Maraini, in this short story collection, explores the vexing, tragic, and often humorous experiences of women living in modern urban Italy. With a style as lean as Samuel Beckett’s, and a love of the absurd that rivals Eugène Ionesco, Maraini’s stories are both poignant and wickedly funny. The writer’s ironic lens zooms in to examining sexual relations, working conditions, women’s issues, and family dynamics, illuminating the lives of an entire generation. With classic existential angst, Maraini’s characters are often profoundly dissatisfied with their situations, but also ill-equipped to initiate any real change. This feminist version of the absurd is deliciously wry and terrible. The stories have a real bite. Originally published as Mio marito in 1968, this is the first English translation of My Husband.
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Total Pages : 556 pages
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Download or read book New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
