A Life Devoted to Writing. Festschrift in Honor of Dacia Maraini: Writing Like Breathing: An Homage to Dacia Maraini

by Michelangelo La Luna (Editor)

Overview

A Life Devoted to Writing: Festschrift in Honor of Dacia Maraini is the most complete collection of critical essays ever published on Dacia Maraini. The detailed Introduction, the twenty critical essays, and the updated bibliography cover the most important aspects and themes of Maraini's life and works, such as the conditions in Japanese internment camps during WWII, her formative years in Sicily and then in Rome, violence against women, violence against children, gender, feminism, prostitution, sexuality, love, diversity and inclusion, among others.
To attempt to organize this vast collection of papers, the volume is divided into sections, including, but not limited to, a chronological sequence of Maraini' writings, their major themes and literary gender, starting from an analysis of her first novel La vacanza (1962), up to her latest one entitled Trio (2020) written during the pandemic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788897715887
Publisher:	De Rada Italian Institute, Inc.
Publication date:	03/27/2021
Series:	SOPHIA , #15
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Michelangelo La Luna (Harvard University and University of Calabria Ph.Ds.) is Professor of Italian Language and Literature at the University of Rhode Is­land, and Director of the Italian International Engineering Program and the URI Summer Program in Italy. He is the author of articles and books on Italian and Italian-Albanian writers and poets, such as Carmine Abate, Luigi Capuana, Dante Alighieri, Girolamo De Rada, Dacia Maraini, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
As Director of the series SOPHIA, Michelangelo La Luna is the editor of Dacia Maraini’s Taccuino americano (1964-2016), and of the collection Writing like Breathing. An Homage to Dacia Maraini, divided into V volumes: Beloved Writing. Fifty Years of Engagement, vol. I, 2016; Mafia and Other Plays, vol. II, 2017; USA 1964-2017: An Italian Reportage, vol. III, 2018; Dacia Maraini and Her Literary Journey, vol. IV, 2020 (co-edited with Angela Pitassi); A Life Devoted to Writing: Festschrift in Honor of Dacia Maraini, vol. V, 2021. He also edited and wrote the Introduction of the collection Dacia Maraini, Writing Like Breathing. Racconti Romanzo Poesia. Sessant’anni di letteratura. Gli Speciali STRADE NARRATIVA. Rome: Gruppo Albatros Il Filo, 2021.