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Contents
Introduction
Revising the Canon: Italian Women Writers/Maria O. Marotti
Part I: Canon Formation/Canon Revision
1. Women Writers and the Canon in Contemporary Italy/JoAnn Cannon
2. From One Closet to Another? Feminism, Literary Archaeology, and the Canon/Beverly Allen
3. Italian "Difference Theory": A New Canon?/Renate Holub
Part II: Renaissance Women: Rethinking the Canon
4. Renaissance Women Defending Women: Arguments Against Patriarchy/Constance Jordan
5. Selling the Self, or the Epistolary Production of Renaissance Courtesans/Fiora A. Bassanese
Part III: At the Turn of the Century: Women Writers at the Margins of the Canon
6. Double Marginality: Matilde Serao and the Politics of Ambiguity/Nancy Harrowitz
7. The Diaries of Sibilla Aleramo: Constructing Female Subjectivity/Bernadette Luciano
8. Narrative Voice and the Regional Experience: Redefining Female Images in the Works of Maria Messina/Elise Magistro
Part IV: Contemporary Women Writers: Toward a New Canon
9. Brushing Benjamin Against the Grain: Elsa Morante and the Jetzeit of Marginal History/Maurizia Boscagli
10. From Genealogy to Gynealogy and Beyond: Fausta Cialente''s Le Quattro Ragazze Wieselberger/Graziella Parati
11. Ethnic Matriarchy: Fabrizia Ramondino''s Neapolitan World/Maria Ornella Marotti
12. Mythic Revisionism: Women Poets and Philosophers in Italy Today/Lucia Re
Part V: Women as Filmmakers: Images of Women/Images by Women/Images for Women
13. Monica Vitti: The Image and the Word/Marga Cottino-Jones
14. Signifying the Holocaust: Liliana Cavani''s Portiere di notte/Marguerite Waller