Corporeal Bonds
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Corporeal Bonds

The Daughter-Mother Relationship in Twentieth-Century Italian Women's Writing

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Corporeal Bonds

The Daughter-Mother Relationship in Twentieth-Century Italian Women's Writing

About this book

In Corporeal Bonds, Patrizia Sambuco analyses novels by authors such as Elsa Morante, Francesca Sanvitale, Mariateresa Di Lascia, and Elena Ferrante, each of which is narrated from the daughter's point of view and depicts the daughter's bond with the mother.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. Psychoanalytic Accounts of Sexual Difference: Luce Irigaray and Italian Feminism
  5. 2. Elsa Morante’s Menzogna e sortilegio: The Incorporeal Bond
  6. 3. Francesca Sanvitale’s Madre e figlia: Bodies of Pain and Imagination
  7. 4. Mariateresa Di Lascia’s Passaggio in ombra: The Maternal as Expression of Desire and Corporeality
  8. 5. Elena Ferrante’s L’amore molesto: The Renegotiation of the Mother’s Body
  9. 6. Elena Stancanelli’s Benzina: The Surreal Mother-Daughter Relationship and New Possibilities
  10. Conclusion
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index