Susanna Scarparo and Rita Wilson, eds. Across Genre, Generations and Borders, Italian Women Writing Lives.(Critical essay)

From: Italica | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: Wright, Simona | Copyright information

Susanna Scarparo and Rita Wilson, eds. Across Genre, Generations and Borders. . Newark: U of Delaware P, 2004.

As the title of the volume edited by Susanna Scarparo and Rita Wilson promisingly suggests, Across Genre, Generations and Borders. Italian Women Writing Lives aims at problematzing the question of writing women's lives, both in the form of biography and autobiography, as elaborated in the works of several Italian and Italian speaking women writers. Scarparo and ...

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