Identità di genere e sessualità nelle opere di Goliarda Sapienza: finzioni necessariamente queer’

Translated title of the contribution: Gender Identity and Sexuality in the Work of Goliarda Sapienza: queer fictions

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Abstract

Through reference to the texts 'Lettera aperta', 'Il filo di mezzogiorno', 'Le certezze del dubbio', 'L’arte della gioia', and 'Io, Jean Gabin', this chapter explores how Saienza’s queer fictions are expressed through narrations of her gender and sexual identity, which oscillate between a reflection and a contestation of socio-cultural norms. Anticipating the influential theories of Judith Butler, For Sapienza sex and gender are performative, as she challenges biological essentialism. However., although there are queer elements to her narrations, she often stops short of overtly articulating these, leaving them hidden between the lines: necessary fictions that remain unarticulated, unsaid. In this sense, we can think of her texts as heterotopias, as defined by Foucault: places that open up on other places, beyond the surface of the ‘real’, where the ‘real’ is contested.
Translated title of the contributionGender Identity and Sexuality in the Work of Goliarda Sapienza: queer fictions
Original languageItalian
Title of host publication«Quel sogno d'essere» di Goliarda Sapienza
Subtitle of host publicationPercorsi critici su una delle maggiori autrici del Novecento italiano
EditorsGiovanna Providenti
Place of PublicationRome
PublisherAracne Editrice
Pages223-242
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)978-88-548-4630-2
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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