Maternal Desire: Natalia Ginzburg's Mothers, Daughters and Sisters.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-APR-04

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Maternal Desire: Natalia Ginzburg's Mothers, Daughters and Sisters. By TERESA PICARIZZI. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 234 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3904-6.

Teresa Picarazzi's study focuses closely on Ginzburg's female characters, their gradually evolving experiences, perspectives, and natures from the 1930s to the 1980s. Although the introduction is useful in outlining the scope of the book, it would have benefited from a comment that the 'specialist' discourse used by her in relation to feminist criticism would be contextualized in subsequent chapters. Indeed, while Picarazzi's aims and intentions are valid and interesting, they often seem to be stated later than might be helpful. The background...

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