- Paperback: 189 pages
- Publisher: Troubador Publishing (1 Mar 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904744192
- ISBN-13: 978-1904744191
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,370,093 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Undoubtedly an exciting and well-conceived contribution to Italian Women's Studies, feminist historiography and genre theory. The complexity and sophistication of its theoretical and literary tapestry offer us exciting new directions in literary analysis."Journal of Modern Italian Studies
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This is an innovative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary reflection on the nature of women's biographical writing. In discussing how a number of writers from Italy, the United States and Australia rescue, or reinterpret, forgotten and excluded notable women from the past, Scarparo presents a controversial theory of biography based on metafictional dialogues between biographers as self-declared writers of fiction and their biographical subjects. The author eloquently places biography at the centre of a reflection on the relationship between history and fiction, and questions the notion of historical truth by looking at specific examples in which history turns into fiction, and fiction becomes history. In her discussion of these examples, Scarparo links the general issue of women's history-intended as the act of revising, recuperating, or simply writing it as History-to a specific narrative strategy that she calls gendered metafiction. Elusive Subjects offers a perceptive discussion of the varying degrees to which writers such as Banti, Bellonci, Daitch and Modjeska render their presence as story-tellers visible. In so doing, Scarparo questions the concealment that the writing of history and biography have traditionally involved, and discusses feminist biography as gendered metafiction.
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