This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women’s writing through the twentieth century—a century that has frequentl

In this important volume, Graziella Parati examines the ways in which Italian women writers articulate their identities through autobiography - a public act tha

The essays included in this collection examine issues such as identity and ideology which are at play in the female autobiography practice, along with the probl

In this study of 19th- and 20th-century French and Italian women's autobiography, the author illustrates how the protagonists' development unfolds through separ

The power exercised by the mother on the son in Mediterranean cultures has been amply studied. Italy is a special case in the Modern Era and the phenomenon of M