{"product_id":"public-history-private-stories","title":"Public History, Private Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplores the way Italian women writers craft identities through writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this important volume, Graziella Parati examines the ways in which Italian women writers articulate their identities through autobiography—a public act that is also the creation of a private life. Considering autobiographical writings by five women writers from the seventeenth century to the present, Parati draws important connections between self-writing and the debate over women’s roles, both traditional and transgressive. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eParati considers the first prose autobiography written by an Italian woman -Camilla Faà Gonzaga’s 1622 memoir—as her beginning point, citing it as a central “pre-text.” In her memoir, Gonzaga makes explicit her conflict over the public silence imposed on her, yet succeeds in writing herself into history through self-narrative. Parati then examines Enif Robert’s autobiography, in which Robert strives to enter the public sphere of the post-World War I futurist movement by writing about her fight to overcome cancer of the uterus. Next, Parati considers Fausta Cialente’s life story, an account of her family's life in Trieste from World War I through the fascist era, as well as the narrative in which Rita Levi Montalcini describes her life as a woman, a Nobel-Prize winning scientist, and a Jew who lived under fascism in the thirties and forties. Finally, Parati analyzes Luisa Passerini's look back on her involvement with the student movement of 1968. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough her discussion of these women’s writings, Parati demonstrates the complex negotiations over identity contained within them, negotiations that challenge dichotomies between male and female, maternal and paternal, and private and public. \u003cem\u003ePublic History, Private Stories\u003c\/em\u003e is a compelling exploration of the disparate identities created by these women through the act of writing autobiography. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graziella Parati","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616385229180,"sku":"9780816626076","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_026a13b3-36e2-4010-88ba-d95a4d0010e7.jpg?v=1746711505","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/public-history-private-stories","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}