Rileggere la Procida di Elsa Morante
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Keywords

Bildung, genre, failed maturation, ambiguity, island, boy, girl.

How to Cite

Serkowska, H. (2023). Rileggere la Procida di Elsa Morante. Kritik. Rivista Di Letteratura E Critica Culturale , 2. Retrieved from https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/kritik/article/view/3134

Abstract

While rereading the classical Arturo’s Island novel, set on Procida, I focus on the way in which Elsa Morante challenges the system of literary genres (confusing and mixing Bildung with anti-Bildung) and in which she tackles the gender binarity of her characters (first replacing the female character by a male protagonist, and then supplanting the male characters in favour of androgynous figures). The writer refuses the established system of genres (and genders) to expose it to hybridizations and ambiguity.

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