The Publishing History of bell hooks in Italy
The essay reconstructs the publishing history of bell hooks in Italy, showing the link between her works and the progress of the country. After a period of silence, in the last few years, her name has returned to the fore. Some topics which, at the end of the Twentieth century, seemed futuristic, fo...
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description | The essay reconstructs the publishing history of bell hooks in Italy, showing the link between her works and the progress of the country. After a period of silence, in the last few years, her name has returned to the fore. Some topics which, at the end of the Twentieth century, seemed futuristic, for instance that of ‘intersectionality’, had visibly been proposed within Italian society. This different Italy, no longer white or aware of being no longer populated only by productive white males, was finding its own words and its own theoretical benchmarks. bell hooks had finally met her public. |
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title | The Publishing History of bell hooks in Italy |
title_full | The Publishing History of bell hooks in Italy |
title_fullStr | The Publishing History of bell hooks in Italy |
title_full_unstemmed | The Publishing History of bell hooks in Italy |
title_short | The Publishing History of bell hooks in Italy |
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