Storie di nuovi esili il richiamo di Demetra in Barbara Grizzuti Harrison e Maria Laurino
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esili, scrittrici italo-americane, viaggioAbstract
Il viaggio in Italia per molte scrittrici italo-americane si presenta come un’ulteriore esperienza di esilio da un’americanità faticosamente conquistata e da quella patria dei padri che non le riconosce più come figlie. Esse affrontano il viaggio in Italia come ansioso ri-conoscimento della propria identità composita dove il passato è riconquistato senza vergogna. Tuttavia, il confronto con l’Italia si rivela spesso una sfida. L’articolo, pertanto, tratterà tali aspetti, evidenti soprattutto nella narrativa di alcune scrittrici – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Sandra Mortola Gilbert, Helen Barolini, Susan Caperna, Lloyd, Maria Laurino –, particolarmente sensibili al problema.
Narrating New Exiles: Italian American Women Writers in Italy
Travelling to Italy may represent for many Italian American women writers a further form of exile: from their harshly achieved American identity and from the mother land which tends to no longer consider them as daughters. They often face their travelling in Italy as an eager recognition of their composite identity without fear of joining a past which meant sufferance. Nevertheless the confrontation with Italy results in a challenge. The present study aims at a consideration of such aspects as they are present in the writings of Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Sandra Mortola Gilbert, Helen Barolini, Susan Caperna, Lloyd, Maria Laurino.
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