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The Challenge of Modernity - Essays on Grazia Deledda
Edited by Sharon Wood
One of the latest publications in the Troubador Italian Series
Grazia Deledda was the most unlikely person to win the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1926. Despite a constant and vast readership, she has had
a very mixed response from the critical and academic establishment.
This book reveals her as a writer of extraordinary personal courage,
who was far more ‘modern’ than previous criticism might suggest. While
Deledda’s life has been the subject of recent interest, this is the
first book in English to offer an insight into her work from the
perspectives of modernism, feminism and post-colonialism.
Born in relative obscurity in Nuoro, Sardinia, Deledda grew up in a
community where women who wrote for money were a source of scandal. She
overcame the obstacles of language and culture (learning Italian and
being largely self-taught), and the hostility of her own community – a
hostility that continued even after her death – to become one of the
best-known writers of her day, in Italy and beyond.
Deledda has been variously categorised as Romantic, Realist, Symbolist
or Decadent. This book aims to show the writer and her work in a new
light, emphasising the extraordinary nature of her achievement, given
her unpromising beginnings, and seeing in her work, not as a pale
reflection of literary experiments going on elsewhere, but as powerful
narratives which speak to the modern world of gender, love, economics,
social order and transgression, and of feminism and postcolonialism.
About the author: Sharon Wood is Professor of Italian at the University
of Leicester, having previously taught at the universities of
Manchester, Liverpool and Strathclyde. She has written extensively on
women’s writing in Italy and has translated a number of books from
Italian, including work by Primo Levi, Romana Petri and Susanna Tamaro.
Published 17 December 2007
ISBN 978-1906221-676
£16.99
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