Italian Women Writers from the Renaissance to the Present

<p><strong>Contents</strong></p><p/><p>Introduction</p><p>Revising the Canon: Italian Women Writers/Maria O. Marotti</p><p/><p/><p><strong>Part I: Canon Formation/Canon Revision</strong></p><p/><p>1. Women Writers and the Canon in Contemporary Italy/JoAnn Cannon</p><p>2. From One Closet to Another? Feminism, Literary Archaeology, and the Canon/Beverly Allen</p><p>3. Italian "Difference Theory": A New Canon?/Renate Holub</p><p/><p><strong>Part II: Renaissance Women: Rethinking the Canon</strong></p><p/><p>4. Renaissance Women Defending Women: Arguments Against Patriarchy/Constance Jordan</p><p>5. Selling the Self, or the Epistolary Production of Renaissance Courtesans/Fiora A. Bassanese</p><p/><p><strong>Part III: At the Turn of the Century: Women Writers at the Margins of the Canon</strong></p><p/><p>6. Double Marginality: Matilde Serao and the Politics of Ambiguity/Nancy Harrowitz</p><p>7. The Diaries of Sibilla Aleramo: Constructing Female Subjectivity/Bernadette Luciano</p><p>8. Narrative Voice and the Regional Experience: Redefining Female Images in the Works of Maria Messina/Elise Magistro</p><p/><p><strong>Part IV: Contemporary Women Writers: Toward a New Canon</strong></p><p/><p>9. Brushing Benjamin Against the Grain: Elsa Morante and the <i>Jetzeit</i> of Marginal History/Maurizia Boscagli</p><p>10. From Genealogy to Gynealogy and Beyond: Fausta Cialente's <i>Le Quattro Ragazze Wieselberger</i>/Graziella Parati</p><p>11. Ethnic Matriarchy: Fabrizia Ramondino's Neapolitan World/Maria Ornella Marotti</p><p>12. Mythic Revisionism: Women Poets and Philosophers in Italy Today/Lucia Re</p><p/><p><strong>Part V: Women as Filmmakers: Images of Women/Images by Women/Images for Women</strong></p><p/><p>13. Monica Vitti: The Image and the Word/Marga Cottino-Jones</p><p>14. Signifying the Holocaust: Liliana Cavani's <i>Portiere di notte</i>/Marguerite Waller</p>