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The Performative Power of Narrative in Goliarda Sapienza’s Lettera aperta, L’arte della gioia and Io, Jean Gabin
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Bazzoni, Alberica (2017) The Performative Power of Narrative in Goliarda Sapienza’s Lettera aperta, L’arte della gioia and Io, Jean Gabin. Italian Studies, 72 (1). pp. 72-88. doi:10.1080/00751634.2017.1287256 ISSN 0075-1634.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2017.1287256
Abstract
This article investigates Goliarda Sapienza’s distinctive use of narrative as ‘performative’, focusing on narrative voice and structures in three works: Lettera aperta, L’arte della gioia and Io, Jean Gabin. The analysis postulates an evolution from a performative and deeply unstable narrating ‘I’ to the reinforced narrating voice and identity of an anarchist artist. In the analysis of narrative voice and structures, I draw on Adriana Cavarero’s notions of voice and narration and Jean-Claude Coquet’s reflections on body and language; I also employ Mark Turner’s concept of ‘blended space’ and Peter Brooks’ insights on plot and teleology. Sapienza’s narrative incorporates characteristics of both modernism and postmodernism in a highly disrupted and open narrative. It is, however, in transcending the same and giving voice to a conception of performative identity capable of producing agency and emancipation that the significant originality of Sapienza’s narrative lies.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Italian Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Italian Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | Maney Publishing | ||||||
ISSN: | 0075-1634 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 72 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 72-88 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/00751634.2017.1287256 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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