Women and Religion in Italian-Canadian Narratives

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  • Deborah Saidero Università degli Studi di Udine

Parole chiave:

women, religion, Canadian narratives

Abstract

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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10.05.2021

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Saidero, D. (2021). Women and Religion in Italian-Canadian Narratives. Oltreoceano - Rivista Sulle Migrazioni, (14), 105–120. Recuperato da https://riviste.lineaedizioni.it/index.php/oltreoceano/article/view/76