Sulis, G (2013) 'Dare voce alle vite marginali: plurilinguismo di genere nella narrativa di Laura Pariani'. The Italianist, 33 (Oc (3). pp. 405-426.
Abstract
This article analyses the literary work of Laura Pariani (1951-), a writer who, over the last twenty years, has gained a niche position in the contemporary canon. After situating Pariani in the context of Italian fiction in the years 1990s-2010s, the analysis focuses on the ‘centrality of margins’ as the inspiring principle underpinning her production. In Pariani’s writings marginality – geographical, gender-based, generational, linguistic – becomes a privileged point of view from which to assess the world. The protagonists of her works are women, but also children, immigrants, the socially marginalised, often dialect speakers, or those caught in situations of opposition to or compromise with the ‘language of power’, covering a chronological range from the sixteenth century to today. The decision to place those whom History has ignored at the centre of the stories, to give voice to the voiceless, is investigated here with a focus on multilingualism, on the places of narration and on narrative structures, and is related back to the author’s youthful militancy in the youth movements of the 1970s, above all Milan’s feminist collectives. [10,303 words]
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | c) 2013, Maney. This is an author produced version of a paper accepted for publication in The Italianist. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Modern Italian Fiction; Women Writing; Laura Pariani; Multilingualism; Contemporary Literary Canon (Italy); Feminism in the 1970s |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > Italian (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2013 12:45 |
Last Modified: | 20 Feb 2024 15:44 |
Published Version: | http://www.maney.co.uk/index.php/journals/its/ |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Maney |
Identification Number: | 10.1179/0261434013z.00000000053 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:75254 |