Fiorucci, Wissia (2018) A Woman’s Loss of Imagination: Paola Masino’s Magical Realism in Nascita e morte della Massaia. Italian Culture, 36 (2). pp. 120-135. ISSN 0161-4622. E-ISSN 1559-0909. (doi:10.1080/01614622.2018.1485993) (KAR id:69930)
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Abstract
Criticism on Paola Masino has flourished since the early 2000s. This increased attention has contributed towards reclaiming an author often overshadowed by the attention received by her partner, Massimo Bontempelli, the father of realismo magico. Masino experimented with a variety of styles—realismo magico was one of them—as she rejected strictly naturalistic forms of representation, preferring to co-opt myths and the supernatural. Nascita e morte della Massaia (1945) is Masino’s most renowned literary effort, both for its critique of Fascist Italy and for its sophisticated stylistic effects. Nascita, while indebted to Bontempelli’s theorizations, features all the chief characteristics listed in Faris’s analysis of magical realism as an international phenomenon, and illustrates how magical realism offers strategies for evading censorship to those writing against totalitarianism regimes. At the same time, it is an example of how magical realism can be used to denounce socially imposed gender roles. My analysis shows how this narrative mode emerges on multiple levels within Masino’s text.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1080/01614622.2018.1485993 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Masino, magical realism, realismo magico, Fascist censorship, subversive literature, magical realism and gender |
Subjects: |
P Language and Literature P Language and Literature > PB Modern Languages P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages |
Depositing User: | Wissia Fiorucci |
Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2018 13:48 UTC |
Last Modified: | 09 Dec 2022 03:50 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/69930 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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