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Roma, Editrice coop. UTOPIA, 1986-
A question of style, 1999, n. 42-43
For Annarita Buttafuoco, pp. 2-6
EDITORIAL, A question of style, pp. 7-9
FORTINI Laura
The challenge of an impossible literaryness, pp. 10-31
GRASSO Silvana
The cyclopic quaestio, pp. 32-37
DI GENOVA Arianna
Untamed domesticities, pp. 38-41
VIOLI Patrizia
Experiencing individuality, and belonging to a gender:
a question of "style"?, pp. 42-55
MURARO Luisa - SPADACCINI Debora
Politics and mystic in Carla Lonzi's writing, pp. 56-75
BOCCIA Maria Luisa
Thinking differently, pp. 76-86
CAMBONI Marina
Alicia Ostriker: fighting with the Angel, pp. 87-114
For Annarita Buttafuoco, pp. 2-6
On the 26th of May, Annarita Buttafuoco, feminist historian and founder of "DWF", died in young age. She is remembered and mourned on behalf of the whole editorial board by those who shared the review's new project with her since 1985 and who still work in it: Annalisa Biondi, Paola Bono, Patrizia Cacioli, Vania Chiurlotto, Paola Masi.
EDITORIAL, A question of style, pp. 7-9
Single identities and/in significant relationships; these are today the key words and concepts in looking at women's politics. For there is no doubt that today women can speak out and make themselves heard; but the question remains as to how to speak out, how to signify oneself and one's conception of the world.
The style of enunciation, which informs one's words with one's single identity, must be investigated; the other women's discourse reveals a style of enunciation every time it presents and communicates her single experience; it talks about another world and another truth making them available also to the other. The style of enunciation becomes an ordering form as it combines the unicity of one's single experience and the challenge of its communication.
FORTINI Laura, The challenge of an impossible literaryness, pp. 10-31
Re-reading a series of texts by Italian women writers, with a special focus on the last decades, the author retraces themes and motives of a common style of literary enunciation; its use of and reliance an metonymy rather than metaphor is the peculiar trait, as well as the merit and value, of this recent literary production.
GRASSO Silvana, The cyclopic quaestio, pp. 32-37
In this text the Sicilian writer Silvana Grasso displays and deploys - in its making and in its being - an enunciative style whose origins she retraces not in a conventionality literary "Sicilianity" but in an insularity which coincides with the unicity of the single identity.
She writes: "Thus my legitimate and bastard language loots and plunders everywhere and anyhow, looter and vestal of the plundered and the plunder. Stealing tastes noises squeaks and trains, it celebrates its rites in the sacrilegious temple of the fish market, with the tunny's warm blood crying out the torture of slaughter".
DI GENOVA Arianna, Untamed domesticities, pp. 38-41
Art's register shifts its gears; and although perfectly able to master and ride the electronic temptations of our virtual age, many women artists turn to the investigation of a daily routine which hides in its banality the seeds of uneasiness. The new narrative code appropriates the biological body in its elementary nature, and retrieves a constellation of emotions from the quick running of time.
VIOLI Patrizia, Experiencing individuality, and belonging to a gender: a
question of "style"?, pp. 42-55
According to the author, individuality has been kept at the margins of philosophical thought, confined in the private sphere, as the unsayable of culture; taking oneself as one's starting point, the founding practise of feminist thought, has questioned anew this exclusion of individuality.
Drawing upon her previous work, where she posited sexual difference as a universal of signification, one of the deep appositions which structure and originate meaning, Violi looks at the complexities of a world where differences and multiplicity problematise and displace one's sense of belonging.
She then tries to define a linguistic equivalent of individuality, re-thinking the concept of style as the specific, unique form of each individual's relationship with language; finally, she suggests a "style of gender", characterised not by normative regularities but rather by a shared horizon for women's words.
MURARO Luisa - SPADACCINI Debora, Politics and mystic in Carla Lonzi's writing,
pp. 56-75
Luisa Muraro introduces Debora Spadaccini. Spadaccini retraces and underlines the presence in the writings of Carla Lonzi of a number of references to the Bible and the Gospels, especially to the figures of Christ and John the Baptist.
They show Lonzi's interest towards early Christianity
and women's religious experience, an interest which should be read in the light
of her political passion and of her capacity "to see the religious symbolic
as a bridge for her own need to speak out".
BOCCIA Maria Luisa, Thinking differently, pp. 76-86
The philosophical thought of sexual difference has accepted Virginia Woolf's suggestion that we have to find new words and create new methods. According to the author, "thinking differently" does not imply trying to answer the question "what is femininity?", nor should it attempt to redefine female identity laying down rules for women's subjectivity and existence.
She envisions it as a public and political exchange among women, where the sense of taking oneself as one's starting point is reproposed and renewed; women's freedom today requires a new emphasis on each woman's single identity, as it requires each woman's personal involvement and responsibility.
CAMBONI Marina, Alicia Ostriker: fighting with the Angel, pp. 87-114
Camboni introduces the work of Alicia Suskin Ostriker, American poet and essay-writer active in the Women's Spirituality Movement, with an interview and a selection of her poems translated into Italian.