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Women and the Transnational Making of Italy Between Colonialism, Migration, and Southern Question – Lecture with Clarissa Clò
Women and the Transnational Making of Italy Between Colonialism, Migration, and Southern Question – Lecture with Clarissa Clò
This presentation will discuss three works by women: Rosalia Pianavia Vivaldi’s colonial diary Tre anni in Eritrea (1901), Sibilla Aleramo’s memoir Una donna (1906) and Marie Hall Ets’s transcribed oral storytelling Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant (1970). Taken together these narratives link colonialism, emigration, and the Southern Question and emphasize the central, yet devalued, role and experience of women […]
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