Papers by Cristina Gragnani
Studi e saggi
Sottoboschi letterari brings together essays about six female writers from the period between the... more Sottoboschi letterari brings together essays about six female writers from the period between the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first world war: Mara Antelling, Emma Boghen Conigliani, Evelyn, Anna Franchi, Jolanda, and Flavia Steno. Through the metaphor of the undergrowth, which recalls certain features of Deleuze's rhizome, the book explores the way in which the chosen writers made headway in the literary scene of Italy at the end of the nineteenth century through contributions in the form of narrative, essays, sociology and literary criticism. Apparently conservative, and subscribing to the dominant vision of the role of women in society and in the family, these writers nevertheless made a decisive step towards the modern concept of the female intellectual.
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California Italian Studies
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Un io titanico per un'umile verità : ideologia e disegno letterario in Avanti il divorzio di Anna Franchi, 2011
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Mnemosyne, 2008
Avanti il divorzio (1902) di Anna Franchi narra della vita di Anna Mirello dall’infanzia ‘libera ... more Avanti il divorzio (1902) di Anna Franchi narra della vita di Anna Mirello dall’infanzia ‘libera e gagliarda’ (per dirla con le parole, più tarde, della Aleramo3), attraverso il suo matrimonio – sedicenne – con il musicista Ettore Streno, fino alla partenza del marito per gli Stati Uniti insieme ai figli. Romanziera, drammaturga, biografa, critica e storica d’arte, Anna Franchi nasce a Livorno nel 1867 e muore a Milano nel 1954. Gravitando attorno al Partito Socialista, si impegna per la campagna a favore di una legge sul divorzio con articoli e conferenze (oltre al romanzo Avanti il divorzio di cui mi occupo qui). Porta avanti su vari giornali un’azione di sensibilizzazione delle donne riguardo alla loro condizione e ruolo in società, con particola-re attenzione alla lotta per il suffragio La narrazione ripercorre le violenze inflitte ad Anna da Ettore (assalti sessuali, gravidanze indesiderate, aggressioni verbali, tradimenti, malattie veneree, false accuse, abusi sui figli e inf...
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Italian Culture, 2016
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Intramuros Biografias Autobiografias Y Memorias, 2004
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Istanza didattica, emancipazionismo e biografismo tardo ottocentesco : Emma Boghen Conigliani critica letteraria, 2011
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Quaderni D Italianistica, 2020
This article analyzes how Anna Franchi and Willy Dias (Fortuna Morpurgo) utilized the language of... more This article analyzes how Anna Franchi and Willy Dias (Fortuna Morpurgo) utilized the language of tourism in their irredentist writings during the first two years of World War I. I look at how they adopted specific features of travel guidebooks to create a nationalistic geographical fantasy. I argue that the two authors’ similar approaches have the same two-fold goal: to teach about the geography, history, and even the existence of the contended areas; to induce their readers to “imagine” the nation (in Benedict Anderson’s terms) as a community ideally united, within and beyond the state’s borders, by a common cultural, linguistic, geographical and ethnic heritage. Inspired by Risorgimento ideology and by irredentist historians, Dias and Franchi rooted such heritage in Greek and Roman history and myth and in the Venetian identity of the contended lands. I show how, through discursive strategies of inclusion/exclusion, Dias and Franchi represented the Mediterranean civilization as an...
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California Italian Studies, 2020
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Studi e saggi, 2011
Sottoboschi letterari brings together essays about six female writers from the period between the... more Sottoboschi letterari brings together essays about six female writers from the period between the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first world war: Mara Antelling, Emma Boghen Conigliani, Evelyn, Anna Franchi, Jolanda, and Flavia Steno. Through the metaphor of the undergrowth, which recalls certain features of Deleuze's rhizome, the book explores the way in which the chosen writers made headway in the literary scene of Italy at the end of the nineteenth century through contributions in the form of narrative, essays, sociology and literary criticism. Apparently conservative, and subscribing to the dominant vision of the role of women in society and in the family, these writers nevertheless made a decisive step towards the modern concept of the female intellectual.
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Humanist Studies & the Digital Age, 2015
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