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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gribaudi, Gabriella
• Morris, Penelope
• Willson, Perry

Titel

Neapolitan Mothers: Three Generations of Women, from Representation to Reality

Ist Teil von

• La Mamma, 2018, p.131-159

Ort / Verlag

United States: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Representations of southern Italian women and mothers are rooted in national narratives and help reinforce stereotypes about cultural codes of national community. This chapter tries to deconstruct these images by comparing literary representations with examples drawn from lived experience. Some literary and theatrical representations are discussed in the first section of the chapter and this is followed by stories taken from the real world. The second and third sections focus on two women whose lives, to some extent, resonate with the literary representations while the final section explores a broader picture of three different generations of women in Naples and the surrounding countryside, which sheds light on trajectories of cultural and social change.