Female Authorship in Italian Postcolonial Literature: A Feminist Project

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n158952

Abstract

The present work proposes to discuss the motives for the preponderance of female authorship in Italian postcolonial literature and, from the perspective of feminist criticism and gender studies, intends to detect the feminist project implicit in these productions, analyzing narrative works of writers from former Italian colonies in Africa

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Author Biography

Márcia de Almeida, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Professora de língua e literatura italiana do Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas da UFJF e docente permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras-Estudos Literários, desenvolvendo pesquisas no campo dos Estudos de Gênero, da Crítica Feminista e dos Estudos Pós-coloniais.

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Published

2019-05-09

How to Cite

de Almeida, M. (2019). Female Authorship in Italian Postcolonial Literature: A Feminist Project. Revista Estudos Feministas, 27(1). https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n158952

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Vol. 27 No. 1 (2019)

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Thematic Section

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