ITALIAN 335

Engendered Voices (Texts in Italian)


Please note: this is archived course information from 2021 for ITALIAN 335.

Description

In the past decades Italian women writers and filmmakers have achieved wide recognition in Italy. Women writers have been the recipients of all the prestigious literary prizes and their works have been translated into various languages. At the same time many Italian writers are excluded from the official canon, and the distribution of films by Italian women filmmakers is poor.

From pre-feminism to post-modernism, from the search for a lost mother to the search for oneself, this course focuses on the representation and invention of women’s experiences, on women’s social and political conditions and on issues of gender and culture in modern and contemporary Italy.

This third-year course is designed for students advancing in Italian: all primary texts will be read in Italian.

Assessment

Coursework only

Availability 2021

Not offered in 2021; planned for 2022

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Dr Daniela Cavallaro

Assessment

Coursework only

Points

ITALIAN 335: 15 points

Prerequisites

ITALIAN 201 and 15 points from ITALIAN 204, 206, 209, 211, 235, 236

Restrictions

ITALIAN 202 or ITALIAN 203