Al di la della realtà. Paola Masino e la maternità in "figlio"
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Universidad de Salamanca
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- Daniela Bombara (coord.)
- Serena Todesco (coord.)
ISSN: 2225-7039
Year of publication: 2021
Volume: 34
Issue: 1
Pages: 100-128
Type: Article
More publications in: Studi d'Italianistica nell'Africa Australe/ Italian Studies in Southern Africa
Abstract
In the short story “Figlio” (Racconto grosso e altri, 1941), the Italian writer Paola Masino develops the theme of motherhood from a twofold approach: on the one hand, by referring to the hardship of abortion in the Fascist period and, on the other hand, by using strategies of the fantastic – such as the double, the shadow, and the mirror – to deal with the protagonist’s trauma of the abortion and the unborn child’s materialisation. The analysis draws upon psychological and psychoanalytic studies and the philosophical theory of becoming.