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Contemporary Women's Writing 2008 2(2):181-182; doi:10.1093/cww/vpn020
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Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic: The Creation of Literary Space. Danielle E. Hipkins

Lynn Makau

Michigan State University, USA

Correspondence: makau@msu.edu

2007. Legenda, Oxford, pp. 240. £45.00, $79.50 hardback.

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In her captivating first book, Danielle E. Hipkins assumes the challenging task of applying feminist literary theory to a complex form and attendant writing practice. She proposes that the fantastic, a "hotly disputed" genre only recently receiving critical attention in Italy, offers women writers unique opportunities for potential dialogue with male-authored texts. Spatial tropes, she contends, as key features of the fantastic, allow "the female writer to encounter and counter anxieties about writing" (5) and to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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