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Toronto Italian Studies: Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing : A Reassessment by Patrizia Sambuco (2025, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN-10148750683X
ISBN-139781487506834
eBay Product ID (ePID)21067514029
Product Key Features
Number of Pages218 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFood and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing : a Reassessment
SubjectWomen, European / Italian
Publication Year2025
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Literary Collections, History
AuthorPatrizia Sambuco
SeriesToronto Italian Studies
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight17 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Patrizia Sambuco's new book is a timely, insightful investigation of a century of Italian women's writing in genres as diverse as cookbooks, memoirs, letters, journalism, and fiction, but it is much more than literary criticism. A truly interdisciplinary enterprise, this book will be required reading for students of culture, philosophy, history, economics, art, science, food, women, gender, and war."--Paula Schwartz, Lois B. Watson Professor Emerita of French Studies, Middlebury College "Exploring the relationship between food and emotions in Italian women writers, Patrizia Sambuco presents an innovative and stimulating approach to a relatively neglected field."--Diego Zancani, Emeritus Professor of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford "This intriguing book performs a sophisticated historical and literary analysis of how diverse Italian female writers from the 1920s to the present have used food to express emotions, define transgressive identities, and challenge political hierarchies. Focusing on Italian women's memoirs, poetry, fiction, and cookbooks during Fascism, World War II, the 1970s, and the contemporary postcolonial migration context, the book shows how food is a subversive and historically specific channel for Italian women's personal and political expression."--Carole Counihan, author of Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth Century Florenceand Editor-in-Chief, Food and Foodways
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal850.93564
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Fascism, Food, and the Senses 2. The Second World War, Food, and Women's Bodies 3. The Politicization of the Everyday 4. The Third Millennium: Food as Relationships Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisFood and Emotions in Italian Women's Writingdiscusses 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., 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., Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing analyses the themes of food and emotion in fiction, poetry, and historical writing by Italian women over a period of one hundred years.
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