Gendered Genres

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Gendered Genres is written by Laura Anne Salsini and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0838638015 (ISBN 10) and 9780838638019 (ISBN 13).

Matilde Serao's richly detailed narratives created a metamorphical city of women negotiating the social and cultural byways of turn-of-the-century Italy. With each text, Serao (1856-1927) added another stratum to her imaginary metropolis, grounding her works in realistic detail and acute social observation. Over the course of almost thirty novels, more than one hundred short stories, and innumerable newspaper articles, Serao articulated her own vision of female destiny in a society governed by traditional, often restrictive, paradigms of female behavior. This study examines how Serao refashioned traditional genres throughout her long literary career, a narrative strategy that allowed her to focus specifically on the depiction of female experiences.