Papers by Stefania Lucamante
Cuadernos de filología italiana, Nov 10, 2015
Il presente saggio unisce due miei interessi di ricerca, l'investigazione sulle trasformazioni di... more Il presente saggio unisce due miei interessi di ricerca, l'investigazione sulle trasformazioni di genere apportate da autrici al romanzo contemporaneo mediante scelte stilistiche e strategie espressive e l'analisi della letteratura nata dalla Shoah. Ci si sofferma in particolare sul romanzo In contumacia di Giacoma Limentani, testo dalla cui analisi emerge l'inestricabile nesso fra la responsabilità dei fascisti nella persecuzione degli ebrei romani e l'abiezione che emerge da un atto di violenza. Violenza sessuale, abiezione, e desiderio di narrazione costituiscono, infatti, i temi-raccordo fra la violenza pubblica e quella vissuta nel privato da una donna.
Modern Language Review, 2020
Italian Studies, Nov 11, 2022
Cuadernos de Filología Italiana, 2015
Il presente saggio unisce due miei interessi di ricerca, l'investigazione sulle trasformazioni di... more Il presente saggio unisce due miei interessi di ricerca, l'investigazione sulle trasformazioni di genere apportate da autrici al romanzo contemporaneo mediante scelte stilistiche e strategie espressive e l'analisi della letteratura nata dalla Shoah. Ci si sofferma in particolare sul romanzo In contumacia di Giacoma Limentani, testo dalla cui analisi emerge l'inestricabile nesso fra la responsabilità dei fascisti nella persecuzione degli ebrei romani e l'abiezione che emerge da un atto di violenza. Violenza sessuale, abiezione, e desiderio di narrazione costituiscono, infatti, i temi-raccordo fra la violenza pubblica e quella vissuta nel privato da una donna.
Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies, 1995
Nothing in my life corresponds with anything in this room — my life has always been crude, unfini... more Nothing in my life corresponds with anything in this room — my life has always been crude, unfinished, raw, tentative … it occurred to me looking at this room that the raw, unfinished quality in my life was precisely what was valuable in it and I should hold on fast to it.
Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies, 2007
Using the interruption of menstruations in the mother and still absent in the daughter as physica... more Using the interruption of menstruations in the mother and still absent in the daughter as physical evidence of the broken relationship between the two women protagonists of Terremoto con madre e figlia, my reading of the play reflects on the economy of such relationship. The mother historicizes the years of feminist and political commitment and her dedication to teaching through the presence of her daughter who completely refuses her mother's teachings. Yet, the presence of the daughter serves as an alibi – from another dimension – for the author to autobiographically reflect on the horizon of the most important events of her existence. Relational contingency allows the mother to build her personal testimony of the Utopia of the Sixty-eight.
Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies, 2008
A Multitude of Women, 2008
Forging Shoah Memories, 2014
Helen Epstein’s Children of the Holocaust shares with Helena Janeczek’s Lezioni di tenebra many p... more Helen Epstein’s Children of the Holocaust shares with Helena Janeczek’s Lezioni di tenebra many parameters of investigation used for the retrieval of memory of the event and the significance of this retrieval for the survivors’ children. These are the parameters Maurice Halbwachs points at as central for the process of formation of collective memory in his eponymous study. Such metrics exact the notion of a living history whose contours are rather different from those defined by the historical memory (or history tout court). Living history is a history in constant renegotiation with itself, that finds material in individual notions, in information exchange, and reflections that go well beyond data and statistics. To the point, statistics is the first element that Epstein considers superfluous: “I did not need to know the statistics when I was a child. I knew my parents had crossed over a chasm, and that each of them had crossed it alone” (12–13). Emerging from the abyss, her parents found in their daughter “their first companion, a new leaf” which “had to be pure life”: This leaf was as different from death as good was from evil and the present from the past. It was evidence of the power of life over the power of destruction. It was proof that they had not died themselves. The door that led to that special room was secret; the place had to be protected. (13)
Forging Shoah Memories, 2014
Born in 1964 in Germany to Polish Jewish parents, writer Helena Janeczek considers Italy in all r... more Born in 1964 in Germany to Polish Jewish parents, writer Helena Janeczek considers Italy in all respects to be her adopted country and her central point of cultural reference. Janeczek is an emblematic exponent of second-generation Holocaust writers in that her artistic and public engagement typifies the ways in which Shoah children’s search for identity shapes itself: initially as a sociopsychological path of recovery and then moves onto larger epistemological venues. Examining her literary contribution to Shoah representation means also further investigating representative limits precisely because, by writing of the disaster, Janeczek presents aspects of writing the imagined.
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