After the war : a collection of short fiction by postwar Italian women by King, Martha, 1928- instant download

After the war : a collection of short fiction by postwar Italian women by King, Martha, 1928- instant download

xii, 267 pages ; 22 cm, \"Since the publication of Martha King's New Italian Women: A Collection of Short Fiction by Italica Press in 1989, a whole new generation of women writers, born and raised after World War II, has grown up on the Italian literary scene. They lived through the revolution of the late 1960s and have enjoyed economic and social advantages unimagined by previous generations. The militant 1960s and '70s also broke down many traditional barriers that had kept women at home and restricted their work possibilities. Broader experiences provided women writers of the postwar generation with new material for creative expression and new attitudes to explore.\" \"An entirely new range of subjects displaces the autobiographical and memory writing of earlier years. This new generation deals more openly with sexual themes and shows a willingness to take on heretofore unmentionable topics. They describe abuse, mental illness, the body and erotic relationships with a new frankness. At the same time, they treat the realities of modernity - apartment living, television, pop music and the Internet, the Americanization of the culture and the language - as the tangible background of their fictions, often with cutting satire or subversive wit.\"--BOOK JACKET, Includes bibliographical references