Women and Religion in Italian-Canadian Narratives
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women, religion, Canadian narrativesAbstract
Socially inscribed and fossilized religious teachings have significantly shaped the lives of Italian-Canadian women who were expected to lead dutiful and chaste lives within the patriarchal family. Today feminist writers often engage in a parodic dialogue with these religious and cultural values that perpetrate ethnic stereotypes of Italian-Canadian women in order to posit new possibilities of emancipation from the stronghold of stifling religious traditions.
Donne e religione nelle narrative italo-canadesi
Insegnamenti religiosi socialmente inscritti e fossilizzati hanno significativamente plasmato la vita delle donne italo-canadesi che dovevano condurre un’esistenza rispettosa e casta all’interno della famiglia patriarcale. Oggi, autrici e autori femministi si impegnano sovente in un dialogo parodico con questi valori religiosi e culturali che perpetrano stereotipi etnici delle donne italo-canadesi. Ciò offre nuove possibilità di emancipazione dalla roccaforte delle soffocanti tradizioni religiose.
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