The South Tyrol’s peculiarities in contemporary italian literature: the case of Eva dorme by Francesca Melandri Cover Image

Le peculiarità altoatesine nella narrativa italiana: il caso di Eva dorme di Francesca Melandri
The South Tyrol’s peculiarities in contemporary italian literature: the case of Eva dorme by Francesca Melandri

Author(s): Giulia Kamińska Di Giannantonio
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: South Tyrol; contemporary italian literature; regional identity; Francesca Melandri

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the subject of the South Tyrol’s peculiarities in Francesca Melandri’s debut novel Eva dorme (Eve sleeps, 2011). The author presents the most important characteristics of the region – the multilingualism of province, lack of understanding between the different ethnic groups, relationships with newcomers, reciprocal stereotypes and the legal separation of italian- and german-speaking groups. The novel is an interesting and original position on italian publishing market (due to a subject of novel) but it represents a conservative attempt to the problem of local identity and didactics aspiration to approach a less well-known part of country to the italian reader.

  • Issue Year: 1/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 187-205
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Italian