- Memoria e short story postcoloniale femminile: Anita Desai e Alice Munro
- Memory and postcolonial short stories: Anita Desai and Alice Munro
- Lolli, Raoul <1970>
Subject
- L-LIN/10 Letteratura inglese
Description
- In ogni capitolo, l’atto del ricordare viene indagato nelle diverse valenze che lo mettono in rapporto diretto con la nostalgia e l’oblio. L’analisi dei testi letterari copre un arco di tempo di quasi un secolo, partendo dalle innovazioni tecnico-stilistiche realizzate da Katherine Mansfield fino all’eccezionale ricchezza e al meritato successo di pubblico e critica della scrittrice canadese Alice Munro. La bibliografia dei testi primari e secondari è strutturata con criteri tematici e cronologici.
- This thesis matches theoretical issues about short story writing and memory studies. After the introductory part, it is organized in three different chapters. In the first chapter, I survey critical perspectives on the history and the evolution of short story writing, supporting my analysis with some examples from Katherine Mansfield’s stories, as a “modernist” keystone of the genre, who marks the passage from nineteenth-century tales to contemporary short stories. Then, I sketch a second step in the evolution of the short story by women writers, according to the examples of Flannery O’Connor. Finally, I link issues in the Afro-American stories by Alice Walker to some trends in postcolonial short story writing by women. In the following two chapters, I analyse the best stories by Anita Desai and Alice Munro, according to their views on recollecting, forgetting and nostalgia. My conclusions summarize thematic and theoretical perspectives and links them to the technical evolution of the genre. The bibliography of primary and secondary sources is organized on the basis of the different areas of studies I have dealt with.
Date
- 2012-05-28
Type
- Doctoral Thesis
- PeerReviewed
Format
- application/pdf
Identifier
urn:nbn:it:unibo-4180
Lolli, Raoul (2012) Memoria e short story postcoloniale femminile: Anita Desai e Alice Munro, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Letterature moderne, comparate e postcoloniali: indirizzo "Letterature e culture dei Paesi di lingua inglese"