INQUIRY INTO THE CURRENT STATE OF WOMEN'S LITERATURE IN ITALY: ANALYSIS AND TRENDS
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The article presents and analyzes the results of a large investigation into the current state of women’s literature in Italy, which brings together sixty interviews carried out by Afrodita Carmen Cionchin and Giusy Capone among well-known literary critics and writers and published in the bilingual magazine online “Orizzonti culturali italo-romeni”. Several themes of great interest and actuality are treated ranging from the difference between women and men when it comes to literature to the axiological criterion (according to which male literature is perceived as “universal”, while the female one continues to be felt as rather aimed at women, that is “partial”), to the literary canon (a reinterpretation of Italian literary history most attentive to gender balances, especially as regards the twentieth century), to the problem of recognition linked to literary prizes (in the case of the Strega Prize, from 1947, the year of its institution, to 2023, there are only twelve women who won it, during the 77 editions, against 65 men), to the fil rouge who knots the multiple souls of the female literature, up to the most representative female names of the twentieth century and the present.
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