Mussolini chez les femmes de lettres dans l’Europe des années 1930
In her early essays, A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938), Virginia Woolf uses the figure of Mussolini (at first associated with Napoleon and then with Hitler) as an example to demonstrate the complicity between fascism and patriarchy, insofar as they have despised women and reduced t...
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| description | In her early essays, A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938), Virginia Woolf uses the figure of Mussolini (at first associated with Napoleon and then with Hitler) as an example to demonstrate the complicity between fascism and patriarchy, insofar as they have despised women and reduced them to their procreative role. Two questions arise: what was the reception of Woolf’s essays in Europe?; and to what extent and in what form does Mussolini appear in 1930s European literature, especially among early feminist writers?The Argentine writer Victoria Ocampo met Mussolini after reading Woolf’s first essay and before meeting her in 1934. As French translator of The Waves Marguerite Yourcenar met Woolf in 1937, whereas she already wrote a dreamlike narrative about a failed attempt on Mussolini’s life (A Coin in Nine Hands, 1934). Although not connected to the other women writers mentioned above, the Polish writer Zofia Nałkowska made occasional references to Mussolini in her diary between 1928 and 1939, like Woolf herself did, even if the latter soon focused on Hitler.In a word, this study aims at reconstructing the networks of sociability or at least a common sensibility that may have contributed to understanding fascism as a feminist issue. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-54aa6de93a7448e69d3ec46c48f7372d2023-09-05T08:06:20ZfraÉcole Normale Supérieure de Lyon EditionsLaboratoire Italien1627-92042117-49702023-09-0130Mussolini chez les femmes de lettres dans l’Europe des années 1930Hélène MartinelliIn her early essays, A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938), Virginia Woolf uses the figure of Mussolini (at first associated with Napoleon and then with Hitler) as an example to demonstrate the complicity between fascism and patriarchy, insofar as they have despised women and reduced them to their procreative role. Two questions arise: what was the reception of Woolf’s essays in Europe?; and to what extent and in what form does Mussolini appear in 1930s European literature, especially among early feminist writers?The Argentine writer Victoria Ocampo met Mussolini after reading Woolf’s first essay and before meeting her in 1934. As French translator of The Waves Marguerite Yourcenar met Woolf in 1937, whereas she already wrote a dreamlike narrative about a failed attempt on Mussolini’s life (A Coin in Nine Hands, 1934). Although not connected to the other women writers mentioned above, the Polish writer Zofia Nałkowska made occasional references to Mussolini in her diary between 1928 and 1939, like Woolf herself did, even if the latter soon focused on Hitler.In a word, this study aims at reconstructing the networks of sociability or at least a common sensibility that may have contributed to understanding fascism as a feminist issue.http://journals.openedition.org/laboratoireitalien/10289women writernetworks of sociabilityfeminismfascismgender identityanti-fascism |
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| title | Mussolini chez les femmes de lettres dans l’Europe des années 1930 |
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| title_sort | mussolini chez les femmes de lettres dans l europe des annees 1930 |
| topic | women writer networks of sociability feminism fascism gender identity anti-fascism |
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