Scrivere la diversita: Autobiografia e politica in Clara Sereni
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Title
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Scrivere la diversita: Autobiografia e politica in Clara Sereni
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:830b4179ab24:10502
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identifier
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10660
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Creator
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Po, Giulia,
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Contributor
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Eugenia Paulicelli
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Date
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2010
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Language
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Italian
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Modern literature | Womens studies | Romance literature | Biographies | Clara Sereni | Diversity | Father-daughter relationship | Female genealogy | Life Writing | Politics
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Abstract
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This monographic study provides a thematic examination across Clara Sereni's texts of life writing (autobiographies and one memoir) and fictional works. As the dissertation aims to demonstrate, writing is for Sereni a political act. The text, in fact, becomes her space to develop a female stance that asserts the importance of the private realm, reevaluate interpersonal and intergenerational relations, and show that diversity can be seen as a positive resource in society.;Sereni's writing presents the undeniable influence of feminism: the significance of politicizing personal lives, the critique to the subaltern role of women in society, mother and daughter difficult relationship, gender, sexuality, and the body are central in her work, and echo that desire of political expression of subjectivity embodied by feminists. But her effort to subvert the male power, whether represented by his socio-political authority or his language, has deeper reasons rooted in the personal experiences of a family that always considered politics, ideals and culture as imperative duties. The writer exposes her own self to the public, finding that introspective world left out by her parents' public language and way of life because, in contrast to them, she cannot separate her private life from her public one.;Writing subjectively becomes Sereni's way to reinterpret the experiences of the past in a process of autobiographical experimentation that embodies the feminine discourse, and allows the writer to shift her perspectives and better understand her own identity as Jewish, daughter, and woman. Writing about social issues is her way to voice a different way of perceiving those who have disadvantages in society, the underserved, the "others." In both cases, her writing acts to build a new horizon that she calls "utopia," which becomes a search that does not constrain itself, but welcomes contradictions and opens up to the creation of hybrid texts. The dissertation aims to frame Sereni's works into a precise socio-historical context, and to draw on theoretical criticism and research in areas related to women's writing, autobiography, concepts of memory, history and culture, and gender studies.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Comparative Literature
