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Ursula Fanning
Performing and Embodying Authorship
Case Studies from Italian Women’s Autobiographical Writings
This chapter investigates moments of performativity alongside various attempts to consciously embody the process of writing in the presentation of, and wrestling with, the act of authorship and the construction of the self through four brief case studies of autobiographical writings by selected twentieth-century Italian women writers (Sibilla Aleramo, Natalia Ginzburg, Dacia Maraini, and Lidia Ravera).
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Performing and Embodying Authorship
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Case Studies from Italian Women’s Autobiographical Writings
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Ursula Fanning
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This chapter investigates moments of performativity alongside various attempts to consciously embody the process of writing in the presentation of, and wrestling with, the act of authorship and the construction of the self through four brief case studies of autobiographical writings by selected twentieth-century Italian women writers (Sibilla Aleramo, Natalia Ginzburg, Dacia Maraini, and Lidia Ravera).
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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April 28, 2026
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autobiographical
body
paratext
performative
self
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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75
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94
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Performing Embodiment: Choreographies of Affect, Language, and Social Norms, ed. by Alberica Bazzoni and Federica Buongiorno, Cultural Inquiry, 39 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2026), pp. 75–94
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