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The Redemption Of Eve: The Decameron As New Genesis, Brittany Asaro
The Redemption Of Eve: The Decameron As New Genesis, Brittany Asaro
Italian and Italian Studies: Faculty Scholarship
Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron (1349-51) has long been regarded as a secular celebration of humanity. Yet, his choice of title—a play on hexameron—frames his short story collection as a gloss on Genesis. In this essay, I argue that the author’s reevaluation of scripture is an essential part of his vision of a post-plague society in which gender roles have been redefined. Boccaccio challenges traditional interpretations of the biblical account of humanity’s creation and fall, in which Woman/Eve is primarily blamed for Original Sin and its consequences. He implies that such misogynistic readings have served to subjugate women, and thus offers an …
Crossing The Borders And Challenging The Boundaries Of White Feminism In Italy: Situated Rearticulations Of Difference And The Impact Of Antiracist Feminisms, Loredana Di Martino
Crossing The Borders And Challenging The Boundaries Of White Feminism In Italy: Situated Rearticulations Of Difference And The Impact Of Antiracist Feminisms, Loredana Di Martino
Italian and Italian Studies: Faculty Scholarship
This article investigates how some white Italian feminists have begun to reckon with the colorblindness and ethnocentrism of their theories and are contributing to the development of a critical white feminism. An examination of key feminist texts from the 1970s will be followed by an investigation into more recent iterations of difference feminism that have critically reengaged and redefined both Marxist theories of social reproduction and cultural practices of female intersubjectivity. In addition to addressing the existence of differently situated gender positionalities and their diverging struggles, this critical white Italian feminism is also attempting to meaningfully incorporate and center feminist …
An Inside View: Gendered Perspectives On Freedom In Decameron 7.5, Brittany Asaro
An Inside View: Gendered Perspectives On Freedom In Decameron 7.5, Brittany Asaro
Italian and Italian Studies: Faculty Scholarship
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The Decameron: Past Meets Present, An Overview, Brittany Asaro
The Decameron: Past Meets Present, An Overview, Brittany Asaro
Italian and Italian Studies: Faculty Scholarship
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Addressing Each Other’S Eyes Directly: From Adriana Cavarero’S “Relating Narratives” To Elena Ferrante’S Intersectional Ethics Of Narrative Relations, Loredana Di Martino
Addressing Each Other’S Eyes Directly: From Adriana Cavarero’S “Relating Narratives” To Elena Ferrante’S Intersectional Ethics Of Narrative Relations, Loredana Di Martino
Italian and Italian Studies: Faculty Scholarship
Narratives that provide honest portrayals of women’s relationships appear to be very popular at the moment. This may seem as nothing new since feminist authors have recast female friendship as a potential site of subversion at least since the seventies. However, as critics have highlighted, it is particularly since the eighties and nineties that representations of ambivalent female relations have become more prominent, mostly as a result of the influence of intersectional and decolonial theories such as those pioneered, respectively, by Audre Lorde and María Lugones. This article contextualizes Elena Ferrante’s work within the current transnational tendency of developing an …