Books by Patrizia Sambuco
University of Toronto Press, 2024
Food and Emotions in Italian Women’s Writing discusses the relevance of food imagery in the writi... more Food and Emotions in Italian Women’s Writing discusses the relevance of food imagery in the writing of Italian women over a period of one hundred years, from the 1920s to the present day, while offering new ways to narrate women’s history and creativity. In this groundbreaking work, Patrizia Sambuco shows how food imagery in different historical periods challenge established political discourses by conveying unexpressed, alternative, or transgressive emotions.
Through literary analysis, archival research, and philosophical approaches to the senses, emotions, and food, the book considers a variety of authors, from the celebrated to the hardly known. Sambuco argues that in different ways, throughout the decades, the conceptual domain of food has helped express forms of selfhood that push the boundaries of womanhood and interact with cultural and political panoramas at national and international levels. Building an alternative history of Italian women and their creativity, Sambuco shows how the interplay of the senses and emotions becomes a profitable way to illuminate overlooked aspects of women’s subjectivity. Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing ultimately reassesses women’s writing, giving value to the marginality of women’s bodies and positions through the conceptual domain of food.
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Introduction: Transmissions of Memory, 2018
My introduction to the edited volume Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia
Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas, and Nostalgia in Post–World War II Italian Culture deal... more Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas, and Nostalgia in Post–World War II Italian Culture deals with films, poetry, fiction, architecture, autobiographical writing, and social media, to discuss cultural memory and hence, transforming cultures. The book is divided into three sections that analyze Italian culture from World War II to the present: cultural transmissions, fractured memories, and nostalgia. Through a variety of perspectives, the chapters present a vision of memory transmission that emphasises empowerment, resilience, and agency—individual or collective—as key concepts for approaching and understanding present and future.
Contents
Section I: Memory as Cultural Transmission
Calvino, Eco and the Transmission of World Literature, Martin McLaughlin
Montale’s Xenia: Between Myth and Poetic Tradition, Adele Bardazzi
Repressed Memory and Traumatic History in Alberto Moravia’s The Woman of Rome, Charles L. Leavitt IV
Reconstructing the Maternal: Transmission of Memory, Cultural Translation and Transnational Identity in Igiaba Scego’s La mia casa è dove sono, Maria Cristina Seccia
Section II: Trauma and Divided Memory
At the Edge. Divided Memory on Italy’s Borders. The Case of Trieste and the Foibe di Basovizza, John Foot
Remembering War. Memory and History in Claudio Magris’s Blameless, Sandra Parmegiani
Blood, Sand and Stone: Trieste’s Transcultural Memories, Katia Pizzi
The Trauma of Liberation: Rape, Love and Violence in Wartime Italy, David W. Ellwood
Between Past and Present, Self and Other: Liminality and the Transmission of Traumatic Memory in Elena Ferrante’s La figlia oscura, Torunn Haaland
Section III: Memory as Nostalgia
Mother-Daughter Nostalgia in the Abruzzi of Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Patrizia Sambuco
A Future Without Nostalgia. Remembering Second-wave Feminism in Mia madre femminista and Fra me e te, Andrea Hajek
Transnational Nostalgia in an All-Female Italian Facebook Group and Cooking Blog, Incoronata (Nadia) Inserra
La storia delle donne è anche la storia di una progressiva, inarrestabile rivelazione. È stata, e... more La storia delle donne è anche la storia di una progressiva, inarrestabile rivelazione. È stata, e continua ad essere, una vicenda multipla, complessa, stratificata, che intravede da sempre nelle forme del dialogo e della narrazione la possibilità di porsi in relazione ad altro, di esplorare nuovi territori e nuovi mondi, reali e concreti non meno che immaginari, simbolici, metaforici. Ecco così emergere, con questa iniziativa editoriale, un'attenzione privilegiata per la scrittura e per le scritture femminili, per i momenti successivi di questa rivelazione, per le pratiche e per i moduli espressivi che hanno costruito nel corso dei secoli una soggettività di per sé narrativa e dialogica: ritratti di donne che hanno lasciato una profonda impronta nella letteratura, nella filosofia, nell'arte, ma anche nella scienza, nella religione, nella politica, nella storia del costume. Un simile approccio non implica semplicemente un cambiamento di oggetto o di metodo, ma esige, soprattutto, uno sguardo differente sulle cose e sulla realtà, la capacità di porsi in ascolto, di rimettere in discussione modelli, chiavi di lettura, prospettive solo apparentemente consolidate, per procedere oltre i rigidi confini di materie e discipline "canoniche". I ritratti e le storie "rivelate", più che tracciare una galleria in qualche modo definitiva di personaggi e di momenti, vogliono allora evidenziare il carattere irriducibilmente rizomatico, carsico, non lineare, di ogni percorso di libertà e di emancipazione. L'immagine da utilizzare potrebbe essere verosimilmente quella di un vasto arcipelago, in cui sia possibile muoversi e navigare, sulla base dell'ispirazione del momento, senza dover fare affidamento su un percorso preordinato, su una rotta già stabilita in partenza. Ogni singolo frammento può infatti ricollegarsi a ciò che sta prima come a ciò che lo segue: l'identità femminile si è costruita nel tempo "sedimentando" eredità di vario tipo, facendo leva proprio sulla ricchezza di tutte le esperienze di vita disponibili. In modo del tutto analogo, la storia delle donne potrà così assumere i caratteri di un cantiere aperto, mobile e modificabile, sempre pronto all'acquisizione di dati e conoscenze. L'identità è una storia in cammino. soggetti rivelati ritratti, storie, scritture di donne collana di studi coordinata da Saveria Chemotti 51 corpi e linguaggi il legame figlia-madre nelle scrittrici italiane del novecento INDICE 11 Introduzione 19 I. GlI aspEttI psICoaNalItICI DElla polItICa DElla DIffErENza: luCE IrIGaray E Il fEmmINIsmo ItalIaNo 19 Il rifiuto della madre 25 la figura della madre e il materno 31 Irigaray: la soggettività e il legame madre-figlia come legame corporeo 43 Da madri a figlie: la situazione italiana 56 Diotima e luisa muraro 62 adriana Cavarero 65 II. Menzogna e sortilegio DI Elsa moraNtE: Il lEGamE INCorporEo 65 Menzogna e sortilegio e i critici 68 la maternità e la relazione madre-figlia: Cesira e anna 80 l'amore materno: rosaria e alessandra 88 Elisa 97 III. Madre e figlia DI fraNCEsCa saNvItalE: CorpI DI soffErENza E ImmaGINazIoNE 99 Il corpo come oggetto di desiderio 106 l'eroe 110 l'attacco al corpo da parte dell'istituzione medica 113 Critica e re-immaginazione 118 scrittura, immaginazione e linguaggio 123 Narratrice, personaggio e autrice in cerca di identità 127 Iv. Passaggio in oMbra DI marIatErEsa DI lasCIa: Il matErNo ComE EsprEssIoNE DI DEsIDErIo E CorporEItà 130 Il desiderio 137 Chiara 140 la figlia all'interno dell'economia eterosessuale 146 Corpo e conoscenza 153 v. l'aMore Molesto DI ElENa fErraNtE: la rINEGozIazIoNE DEl Corpo DElla maDrE 157 Delia: amore e odio di un soggetto senza un sé 164 la ricostruzione del passato 169 Il linguaggio dei vestiti 177 vI. benzina DI ElENa staNCaNEllI: Il rapporto surrEalE tra maDrE E fIGlIa E NuovE possIbIlItà 177 Elena stancanelli e la scena letteraria, 1995-2000 180 benzina 182 madre e figlia: corpi differenti e differenti personalità 185 una relazione di fusione e indipendenza 191 Corpi oppressi nella casa di famiglia 194 Guardare e guardarsi l'un l'altra 199 CoNClusIoNI 207 bibliografia 221 indice analitico
Papers by Patrizia Sambuco
Journal of Romance Studies, 2024
The article discusses the practice of food protest within the Resistance in both Italy and France... more The article discusses the practice of food protest within the Resistance in both Italy and France. In both countries, women's groups connected to left-wing political movements, in particular those within the Communist Party orbit, were behind the organization of these protests. rough a reading of the French and Italian women's underground press, the article examines the anti-Fascist discourse around food demonstrations. It sheds light on a practice that was in Italy as frequent as in France but which, unlike the French counterpart, has fallen between the cracks of history.
Modern Italy
If the ‘colour line’ was prophetically defined as the issue of the twentieth century, in the twen... more If the ‘colour line’ was prophetically defined as the issue of the twentieth century, in the twenty-first century the concern of many scholars is with the research methodology that the attention on the colour line has generated. Migration, postcolonial, and blackness studies focusing on Italy have all asked fundamental questions on how to reframe history, memory, and culture. Charles Burdett (2018) has posited that migration and mobility are vital for the repositioning of the discipline of Italian Studies and Modern Languages as a whole. Critics have argued that Italian Black literature is redefining Italian literature (Romeo 2017) and its reception (Patriarca 2018). Alessandra Ciucci's recent monograph The Voice of the Rural: Music, Poetry and Masculinity among Migrant Moroccan Men in Umbria (2022) and the volume The Black Mediterranean: Borders, Bodies and Citizenship (2021) edited by the Black Mediterranean Collective contribute to this discussion. Both books offer new approa...
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
European History Quarterly, 2023
'sanation', which introduced a series of corporativist measures, along with some openly anti-Semi... more 'sanation', which introduced a series of corporativist measures, along with some openly anti-Semitic ones. Vera Asenova's broad-brush conclusion that 'the interwar period can thus be interpreted as a transition period from capitalism to socialism in Eastern Europe' (388) is based on one single themethe operation of clearing arrangements between Nazi Germany and Bulgaria. The piece by the Czech researchers Jaromir Balcar and Jaroslav Kucera, who take account of both the European depression of the 1930s and public opinion in European countries in 1945, gives a more objective picture of events. Their analysis appears to be useful for studying the economic policies of the postwar period not only in Eastern Europe, but also in Western Europe. Not all the essays are grounded in sources from the occupied countries themselves. For instance, Kim Christian Priemel, in his piece on the Nazis' exploitation of the resources of Ukraine does not make use of the mass of Russian-language documents in published collections or archives, and does not cite Russian-language historiography. This probably accounts for the various incorrect judgements to be found in his text. Had he referred to these documents he would have realized that the Belorussian SSR and the Western regions of the Russian SFSR suffered greater losses than the Ukrainian SSR, and that the German occupiers and Ukrainian nationalists, on top of their bestial mass annihilation of the Jewish population, slaughtered an even greater number of Soviet citizens of other nationalities. Overall, we can say that this book will be of interest to specialists from several countries, and will stimulate research into the economic history of World War Two, many aspects of which still need to be examined more deeply and objectively.
European History Quarterly
This article adds to the growing literature on the history of food in the European dictatorships ... more This article adds to the growing literature on the history of food in the European dictatorships by examining and comparing the alimentary policies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany and their application, paying particular attention to the relationship between class, gender, and the nation. It expands our knowledge and understanding of the mechanics of these dictatorships and of the impact of their food policies on their populations in a comparative way. The Fascist regime took initiatives related to food consumption from the mid-1920s, and women were at the centre of their food propaganda; Nazi Germany – in a similar manner to the Fascist regime – between 1933 and 1939, put in place food policies to encourage people to change their eating habits, even before the outbreak of the Second World War. The analysis of alimentary policies and strategies adopted by the Fascist and Nazi regimes, in the first part of their governments, illustrates the similarities in the populist construction...
Immaginario alimentare e femminismo in Dacia Maraini, 2019
Quaderni d'italianistica, 2018
Within the wide range of scholarly works on food studies, the topic of food and cinema has gained... more Within the wide range of scholarly works on food studies, the topic of food and cinema has gained increasing attention in recent years. This article contributes to the discussion offering a gender perspective in the analysis of Italian films. It examines cinematic representations of food consumption in Ferzan Ozpetek’s Hamam and Luca Guadagnino’s Io sono l’amore. Food consumption is a means of looking at self-identity and the relationship of the individual to the outside world. Eating implies taking part of the outside world inside, and as such it involves not only nutrition for the body but invests the subject with cultural meanings. As a result, the analysis of food consumption lends itself to an examination of cultural gender dynamics that influence representations. Through a gender reading of specific scenes, the article argues that in spite of the apparent representations of independent, successful female protagonists who dare to challenge social conventions, the films co...
Peter Lang Publishing, 2013
The process of self-understanding and self-discovery of her female protagonists are at the heart ... more The process of self-understanding and self-discovery of her female protagonists are at the heart of Elena Ferrante's narrative. In her novels she portrays women who, on their own either momentarily or for their own personal choice, face events that lead them to confront themselves, their past and their sense of identity. Space is often crucial for this unfolding, in particular in her first two novels, L'amore molesto (1992) and I giorni dell'abbandono (2002). These novels present a similar treatment of both the urban and the home space; the cities where the female protagonists are living and their home acquire a decisive value in the attainment of their sense of subjec-tivity. Here gender and space become intertwined in the production of significance, both because space shapes the woman's identity, imposing a patriarchal framework of being, and because the female protagonists re-elaborate the perception of space in a way that creates more positive meaning for themselves. The relationship between space and gender has been analysed both within the Anglo-American and the Italian context, 1 with particular focus on the different perception of the public space of the city in relation to the gendered subjects. As Linda McDowell summarises: " space and place are gendered and sexed, and gender relations and sexuality are 'spaced' " (MacDowell 65). McDowell underlines how spaces reflect gender politics and how, on the other hand, the relationship among the sexes acquires different meaning in different spaces. Some spaces, like 1 In the Italian context the research on women and the city has appeared on journals such as Controspazio, Urbanistica Quaderni, e Planning Theory, as Gallucci and Mattogno underline in " Le autrici della città " 45-48.
Modern Italy
La storiografia si è poco occupata di razionamento e borsa nera, fenomeni che hanno profonda- men... more La storiografia si è poco occupata di razionamento e borsa nera, fenomeni che hanno profonda- mente segnato la vita quotidiana degli italiani durante la Seconda guerra mondiale. Questo articolo intende contribuire a colmare tale lacuna innanzitutto fornendo una panoramica delle dinamiche alla base dello sviluppo della borsa nera alimentare. L’articolo analizza poi l’esperienza di due donne, di divergenti convinzioni politiche, che vissero nella Roma e nella sua periferia occupate dai Nazisti. Lo fa attraverso la disamina dei loro due diari di guerra, uno pubblicato e l’altro no. L’analisi dei diari permette non solo la ricostruzione della vita quotidiana nella Roma affamata del- l’occupazione nazista, ma prende in esamine l’atteggiamento delle due donne verso il mercato nero. Si intende dimostrare che la propaganda fascista sulla dedizione alla patria, di cui erano intrisi i ricettari e le riviste femminili degli anni venti e trenta, durante la guerra venne di nuovo sfruttata nel discorso propagandistico sulla borsa nera per nascondere le responsabilità politiche del governo.
Rationing and illegal food trade in Second World War Italy have received very little scholarly attention in comparison to the scale and impact they had on people's daily life. This article contributes to filling this gap, first by providing an overview of the dynamics that already in the early years of the war determined the development of an illegal system of food trade. It then considers the experience of the black market through two wartime diaries, one published and the other unpublished, written by women of opposite political views, both living in Rome and its outskirts. The analysis of the diaries considers women's attitudes towards the black market. The article argues that the Fascist propaganda of duty to the homeland, so intensively practised through domestic literature during the 1920s and 1930s, was again exploited in wartime in the discourse around the black market and hid the political responsibilities of the government.
Modern Italy, 2023
Alessandra Ciucci's recent monograph The Voice of the Rural: Music, Poetry and Masculinity among ... more Alessandra Ciucci's recent monograph The Voice of the Rural: Music, Poetry and Masculinity among Migrant Moroccan Men in Umbria (2022) and the volume The Black Mediterranean: Borders, Bodies and Citizenship (2021) edited by the Black Mediterranean Collective offer new approaches to analyse migration and deconstruct Eurocentrism. They both emphasise the migrants’ agency and theorise the researcher's position as a tool for the decolonisation of culture.
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Through literary analysis, archival research, and philosophical approaches to the senses, emotions, and food, the book considers a variety of authors, from the celebrated to the hardly known. Sambuco argues that in different ways, throughout the decades, the conceptual domain of food has helped express forms of selfhood that push the boundaries of womanhood and interact with cultural and political panoramas at national and international levels. Building an alternative history of Italian women and their creativity, Sambuco shows how the interplay of the senses and emotions becomes a profitable way to illuminate overlooked aspects of women’s subjectivity. Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing ultimately reassesses women’s writing, giving value to the marginality of women’s bodies and positions through the conceptual domain of food.
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Contents
Section I: Memory as Cultural Transmission
Calvino, Eco and the Transmission of World Literature, Martin McLaughlin
Montale’s Xenia: Between Myth and Poetic Tradition, Adele Bardazzi
Repressed Memory and Traumatic History in Alberto Moravia’s The Woman of Rome, Charles L. Leavitt IV
Reconstructing the Maternal: Transmission of Memory, Cultural Translation and Transnational Identity in Igiaba Scego’s La mia casa è dove sono, Maria Cristina Seccia
Section II: Trauma and Divided Memory
At the Edge. Divided Memory on Italy’s Borders. The Case of Trieste and the Foibe di Basovizza, John Foot
Remembering War. Memory and History in Claudio Magris’s Blameless, Sandra Parmegiani
Blood, Sand and Stone: Trieste’s Transcultural Memories, Katia Pizzi
The Trauma of Liberation: Rape, Love and Violence in Wartime Italy, David W. Ellwood
Between Past and Present, Self and Other: Liminality and the Transmission of Traumatic Memory in Elena Ferrante’s La figlia oscura, Torunn Haaland
Section III: Memory as Nostalgia
Mother-Daughter Nostalgia in the Abruzzi of Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Patrizia Sambuco
A Future Without Nostalgia. Remembering Second-wave Feminism in Mia madre femminista and Fra me e te, Andrea Hajek
Transnational Nostalgia in an All-Female Italian Facebook Group and Cooking Blog, Incoronata (Nadia) Inserra
Papers by Patrizia Sambuco
Rationing and illegal food trade in Second World War Italy have received very little scholarly attention in comparison to the scale and impact they had on people's daily life. This article contributes to filling this gap, first by providing an overview of the dynamics that already in the early years of the war determined the development of an illegal system of food trade. It then considers the experience of the black market through two wartime diaries, one published and the other unpublished, written by women of opposite political views, both living in Rome and its outskirts. The analysis of the diaries considers women's attitudes towards the black market. The article argues that the Fascist propaganda of duty to the homeland, so intensively practised through domestic literature during the 1920s and 1930s, was again exploited in wartime in the discourse around the black market and hid the political responsibilities of the government.
Through literary analysis, archival research, and philosophical approaches to the senses, emotions, and food, the book considers a variety of authors, from the celebrated to the hardly known. Sambuco argues that in different ways, throughout the decades, the conceptual domain of food has helped express forms of selfhood that push the boundaries of womanhood and interact with cultural and political panoramas at national and international levels. Building an alternative history of Italian women and their creativity, Sambuco shows how the interplay of the senses and emotions becomes a profitable way to illuminate overlooked aspects of women’s subjectivity. Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing ultimately reassesses women’s writing, giving value to the marginality of women’s bodies and positions through the conceptual domain of food.
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Contents
Section I: Memory as Cultural Transmission
Calvino, Eco and the Transmission of World Literature, Martin McLaughlin
Montale’s Xenia: Between Myth and Poetic Tradition, Adele Bardazzi
Repressed Memory and Traumatic History in Alberto Moravia’s The Woman of Rome, Charles L. Leavitt IV
Reconstructing the Maternal: Transmission of Memory, Cultural Translation and Transnational Identity in Igiaba Scego’s La mia casa è dove sono, Maria Cristina Seccia
Section II: Trauma and Divided Memory
At the Edge. Divided Memory on Italy’s Borders. The Case of Trieste and the Foibe di Basovizza, John Foot
Remembering War. Memory and History in Claudio Magris’s Blameless, Sandra Parmegiani
Blood, Sand and Stone: Trieste’s Transcultural Memories, Katia Pizzi
The Trauma of Liberation: Rape, Love and Violence in Wartime Italy, David W. Ellwood
Between Past and Present, Self and Other: Liminality and the Transmission of Traumatic Memory in Elena Ferrante’s La figlia oscura, Torunn Haaland
Section III: Memory as Nostalgia
Mother-Daughter Nostalgia in the Abruzzi of Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Patrizia Sambuco
A Future Without Nostalgia. Remembering Second-wave Feminism in Mia madre femminista and Fra me e te, Andrea Hajek
Transnational Nostalgia in an All-Female Italian Facebook Group and Cooking Blog, Incoronata (Nadia) Inserra
Rationing and illegal food trade in Second World War Italy have received very little scholarly attention in comparison to the scale and impact they had on people's daily life. This article contributes to filling this gap, first by providing an overview of the dynamics that already in the early years of the war determined the development of an illegal system of food trade. It then considers the experience of the black market through two wartime diaries, one published and the other unpublished, written by women of opposite political views, both living in Rome and its outskirts. The analysis of the diaries considers women's attitudes towards the black market. The article argues that the Fascist propaganda of duty to the homeland, so intensively practised through domestic literature during the 1920s and 1930s, was again exploited in wartime in the discourse around the black market and hid the political responsibilities of the government.
L’article examine la littérature à caractère régional de Donatella Di Pietrantonio et celle à caractère transnational de Laila Wadia dans le but de vérifier comment l’échange entre des cultures peut représenter un avenir de nouvelles possibilités et de solutions relationnelles. Le choc multiculturel dans les romanes de l’une, et la surdité obstinée des affects dans un monde régional très dur dans les romans de l’autre, sont renégociés afin de proposer des perspectives pour un avenir qui déconstruit les centres de pouvoir figés et s’ouvre à une multiplicité d’identifications relationnelles.
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