Goliarda Sapienza in Context
Intertextual Relationships with Italian and European Culture
international conference
London, 31st May - 1st June 2013
This event took place on 31st May - 1st June at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS) in London (Senate House, University of London), under the umbrella of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing (CCWW).
A volume with the proceedings and invited contributions will be published with Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in 2015.
After a long period of oblivion, interest in the Sicilian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924-1996) is now rapidly increasing, both inside and outside of Italy. The provocative, anti-conformist and eccentric nature of both her figure and texts, partially responsible for the initial lack of a positive response from publishers and critics, is only now beginning to attract the critical attention it deserves.
With this conference we aimed at providing both established scholars and early career researchers with a platform for exchanging their research findings and engaging in a constructive dialogue, with the broader aim of raising the profile of Sapienza Studies and ultimately of assigning this author the place she deserves among European Twentieth-Century writers and intellectuals.
The conference was opened, the evening before, with the screening of the documentary L'Anti-Gattopardo. Catania racconta Goliarda Sapienza, by A. Aiello and G. Di Maio, and two theatrical performances: a reading of the letters of rejection of L'arte della gioia from publishers, realised and performed by Angelo Pellegrino and Paola Pace, and an excerpt of the play L'arte della gioia by Paola Pace.
Compiled by Alberica Bazzoni
A volume with the proceedings and invited contributions will be published with Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in 2015.
After a long period of oblivion, interest in the Sicilian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924-1996) is now rapidly increasing, both inside and outside of Italy. The provocative, anti-conformist and eccentric nature of both her figure and texts, partially responsible for the initial lack of a positive response from publishers and critics, is only now beginning to attract the critical attention it deserves.
With this conference we aimed at providing both established scholars and early career researchers with a platform for exchanging their research findings and engaging in a constructive dialogue, with the broader aim of raising the profile of Sapienza Studies and ultimately of assigning this author the place she deserves among European Twentieth-Century writers and intellectuals.
The conference was opened, the evening before, with the screening of the documentary L'Anti-Gattopardo. Catania racconta Goliarda Sapienza, by A. Aiello and G. Di Maio, and two theatrical performances: a reading of the letters of rejection of L'arte della gioia from publishers, realised and performed by Angelo Pellegrino and Paola Pace, and an excerpt of the play L'arte della gioia by Paola Pace.
Compiled by Alberica Bazzoni