This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women’s writing through the twentieth century—a century that has frequently been referred to as the century of the self. Ursula Fanning addresses the thorny issue of essentialism potentially involved in underlining links between women’s writing and autobiographical modes, and ultimately rejects it in favorContinue reading “Italian Women’s Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century: Constructing Subjects by Assoc Prof Ursula Fanning”