Al di la della realtà. Paola Masino e la maternità in "figlio"

  1. Milagro Martín-Clavijo 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Zeitschrift:
Studi d'Italianistica nell'Africa Australe/ Italian Studies in Southern Africa
  1. Daniela Bombara (coord.)
  2. Serena Todesco (coord.)

ISSN: 2225-7039

Datum der Publikation: 2021

Ausgabe: 34

Nummer: 1

Seiten: 100-128

Art: Artikel

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Andere Publikationen in: Studi d'Italianistica nell'Africa Australe/ Italian Studies in Southern Africa

Zusammenfassung

In the short story “Figlio” (Racconto grosso e altri, 1941), the Italian writer Paola Masino develops the theme of motherhood from a twofold approach: on the one hand, by referring to the hardship of abortion in the Fascist period and, on the other hand, by using strategies of the fantastic – such as the double, the shadow, and the mirror – to deal with the protagonist’s trauma of the abortion and the unborn child’s materialisation. The analysis draws upon psychological and psychoanalytic studies and the philosophical theory of becoming.