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Female Authorship in Italian Postcolonial Literature: A Feminist Project

Abstract:

The present work proposes to discuss the motives for the preponderance of female authorship in Italian postcolonial literature and, from the perspective of feminist criticism and gender studies, intends to detect the feminist project implicit in these productions, analyzing narrative works of writers from former Italian colonies in Africa.

Keywords:
Italian Postcolonial Literature; Feminist Criticism; Gender Studies

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