Pleasure of Writing: Critical Essays on Dacia Maraini

Contents

Contents vii Editors' Preface . ix Acknowledgments Part 1 Preliminaries 3 Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld Introduction 21 Dacia Maraini Reflections.on the Logical and Illogical Bodies of My Sexual Compatriots Part 2 Demythicizing Genre: Issues of Representation and Language 41 Ada Testaferri De-tecting Voci 61 Corrado Federici Spatialized Gender and the Poetry of Dacia Maraini 77 Elisabetta Properzi Nelsen Ecriture Feminine as Consciousness of the Condition of Women in Dacia Maraini's Early Narrative Part 3 Poetics and Practices of Liberation 103 Virginia Picchietti Symbolic Mediation and Female Community in Dacia Maraini's Fiction 121 Giovanna Bellesia Variations on a Theme: Violence against Women in the Writings of Dacia Maraini 135 Daniela Cavallaro Dacia Maraini's "Barricade Theater" Contents . Part 4 Historiographies 149 Giancarlo Lombardi A memoria: Charting a Cultural Map for Women's Transition from Preistoria to Storia 165 Maria Omella Marotti La lunga vita di MariannaUcrla: A Feminist Revisiting of the Eighteenth Century 179 Paola Caru Vocal Marginality: Dacia Maraini's Veronica Franco PartS Reclaiming the Body in the Construction of Subjectivity 195 Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld Body as Will: Incarnate Voice in Dacia Maraini 215 Gabrielle Cody Remembering What the Closed Eye Sees: Some Notes on Dacia Maraini's Postmodem Oresteia 232 Pauline Dagnino Revolution in the Laundry 246 Aine O'Healy Toward a Poor Feminist Cinema: The Experimental Films of Dacia Maraini . 265 List of Contributors 269 Index vi ...