From margins to mainstream : feminism and fictional modes in Italian women's writing, 1968-1990

Carol Lazzaro-Weiss studies the fiction of twenty-five contemporary Italian women writers. Arguing for a notion of gender and genre, she runs counter to many Anglo-American and French feminist theorists who contend that traditional genres cannot readily serve as vehicles for feminist expression. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Feminism and Its Literary Discontents Chapter 2. Separatism in Literature and Politics Chapter 3. From Confession to Romance Chapter 4. The Female Bildungsroman Chapter 5. The Historical Novel: History as Female Subjectivity Chapter 6. Cherchez la femme: Feminism and the Giallo Chapter 7. Mainstreaming Bibliography Index