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Alberica Bazzoni is lector in Italian at the University of Oxford, UK.
Emma Bond is lecturer in Italian and comparative literature at the University of St Andrews, UK.
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi is lecturer in Italian at Durham University, UK.
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Alberica Bazzoni, Emma Bond and Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
Part I: Life, Writing and the Ethics of Subjectivity
1.Goliarda Sapienza’s Permanent Autobiography
Mariagiovanna Andrigo
2.Reforging the Maternal Bond: Motherhood, Mother-Daughter Relationships and Female Relationality in Goliarda Sapienza's L’arte della gioia’
Aureliana Di Rollo
3.“A Backbone Held Together by Joy”: The Transformative Power of L’arte della gioia
André Bella
4.Nomadic Modesta
Monica Farnetti
5.Goliarda Sapienza: The Unknown Scriptwriter
Emma Gobbato
Part II: International Intertextuality
6.Goliarda Sapienza’s “French Connections”
Charlotte Ross
7.“A World without Men”: Interaffectivity and the Function of Shame in the Prison Writings of Goliarda Sapienza and Joan Henry
Emma Bond
8.Orlando and Modesta: Two Voices for the Freedom of Women
Belen Hernandez
Part III: The Italian Context
9.Beyond the Canon: Goliarda Sapienza and Twentieth Century Italian Literary Tradition
Laura Fortini
10.Agency and History in Sapienza's L'arte della gioia and Morante's La Storia
Alberica Bazzoni
11.The Art of Change: Race and the Body in Goliarda Sapienza’s L’arte della gioia
Goffredo Polizzi
Part IV: Spaces of Recollection
12.Changing Recollections: Goliarda Sapienza and Fabrizia Ramondino Writing and Rewriting Childhood
Laura Ferro
13.“L’acqua in gabbia”: The Space of the (Female) Prison between Dystopia and Heterotopia in Memorie di una ladra and L’università di Rebibbia’
Maria Morelli
14.‘“Ero separata da me”: Memory, Selfhood and Mother-Tongue in Goliarda Sapienza and Elena Ferrante
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
The collection contributes to the recent renewed interest in Sapienza by introducing her to an international audience and contextualizing her work both within a European and Italian context through multiple critical approaches, such as queer, feminist, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, and affect theories. As such, the text sheds light on an intriguing and little-known literary figure of the twentieth century who will be of interest to scholars and students of Italian, European, comparative literature, queer, and women’s studies. Readers will be immediately captured by the editors’ introduction, which not only describes the structure of the collection and the fourteen contributions, but also skillfully explains Sapienza’s literary oblivion through the difficulties she had in publishing her work, her “ex-centric” life, and the originality of her writing. The editors highlight two fascinating periods in Sapienza’s life and literary development.... [T]his volume’s strengths lie in its theoretically rich, carefully wrought, and meticulously documented essays which offer readers a mosaic of intriguing perspectives on the recently rediscovered figure of Goliarda Sapienza.
— gender/sexuality/italy
As the very first critical edition to appear in English to appear on Sapienza, this volume represents an important step forward in scholarship on her work. . . As a collection of intuitions, lights and fragments, Goliarda Sapienza in Context offers a rich seam of material for current scholars of Sapienza, modern Italian literature, life-writing, and canonicity.
— Oxford Comparative Criticism & Translation