Sister Souls : The Power of Personal Narrative in the Poetic Works of Antonia Pozzi and Vittorio Serini
Overview
This book focuses on the autobiographical poetry of early 20th-century author Antonia Pozzi and her lifelong friend and fellow poet, Vittorio Sereni, most particularly on the autobiographical format of their writing and its role as a mode of "passive resistance" to Fascist control, a mode of resistance familiar to women's writing even before the onset of Fascist totalitarianism. While Sereni is by far the better-known author, his response to the war experience and, particularly, to imprisonment recalls Pozzi's work on a number of levels. In the "diaries" of both authors, autobiography functions as a means of constantly reasserting the self as a unique and separate individual against the totalizing forces of Fascist propaganda.
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- ISBN-13: 9781611470321
- ISBN-10: 1611470323
- Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Publish Date: October 2011
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.85 pounds
- Page Count: 140
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