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Contents
vii Editors’ Preface
ix Acknowledgments
Part 1
Preliminaries
3 Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld, Vassar College
Introduction
21 Dacia Maraini
Reflections on the Logical and Illogical Bodies of
My Sexual Compatriots
Part 2
Demythicizing Genre: Issues of Representation
and Language
41 Ada Testaferri, York University, Canada
De-tecting Voci
61 Corrado Federici, Brock University,
St. Catharines, Canada
Spatialized Gender and the Poetry of Dacia Maraini
77 Elisabetta Properzi Nelsen, San Francisco
State University
Écriture Féminine as Consciousness of the
Condition of
Women in Dacia Maraini’s Early Narrative
Part 3
Poetics and Practices of Liberation
103 Virginia Picchietti, University of
Scranton
Symbolic Mediation and Female Community in
Dacia Maraini’s Fiction
121 Giovanna Bellesia, Smith College
Variations on a Theme: Violence against Women in
the Writings of Dacia Maraini
135 Daniela Cavallaro, University of
Auckland, New Zealand
Dacia Maraini’s “Barricade Theater”
Part 4
Historiographies
149 Giancarlo Lombardi, CUNY/ College
of Staten Island
A memoria: Charting a Cultural Map for Women’s
Transition from Preistoria to Storia
165 Maria Ornella Marotti, University
of California, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz
La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa: A Feminist
Revisiting of the Eighteenth Century
179 Paola Carù, University of
Bergen, Norway
Vocal Marginality: Dacia Maraini’s Veronica Franco
Part 5
Reclaiming the Body in the Construction of Subjectivity
195 Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld, Vassar
College
Body as Will: Incarnate Voice in Dacia Maraini
215 Gabrielle Cody, Vassar College
Remembering What the Closed Eye Sees: Some Notes
on Dacia Maraini’s Postmodern Oresteia
232 Pauline Dagnino, University of Auckland,
New Zealand
Revolution in the Laundry
246 Áine O’Healy, Loyola
Maramount University
Toward a Poor Feminist Cinema: The Experimental
Films of Dacia Maraini
265 List of Contributors
269 Index
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