| Abstrakt: |
This article investigates Goliarda Sapienza’s distinctive use of narrative as ‘performative’, focusing on narrative voice and structures in three works:Lettera aperta,L’arte della gioiaandIo, Jean Gabin. The analysis postulates an evolution from a performative and deeply unstable narrating ‘I’ to the reinforced narrating voice and identity of an anarchist artist. In the analysis of narrative voice and structures, I draw on Adriana Cavarero’s notions of voice and narration and Jean-Claude Coquet’s reflections on body and language; I also employ Mark Turner’s concept of ‘blended space’ and Peter Brooks’ insights on plot and teleology. Sapienza’s narrative incorporates characteristics of both modernism and postmodernism in a highly disrupted and open narrative. It is, however, in transcending the same and giving voice to a conception of performative identity capable of producing agency and emancipation that the significant originality of Sapienza’s narrative lies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
