Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini

by Emma Bond

This book examines Italo Svevo, Giorgio Pressburger and Giuliana Morandini, all make use of individual 'infected' or suppressed voices within their texts which unfold through illness, silence and identity to cast doubt on a more dominant narrative standpoint.

198 pages, Hardcover

First published May 30, 2012

About the author

Emma Bond is Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies at the University of Oxford and was Principal Investigator of the ‘Transnational Scotland’ network (2019–20). She has published widely on transnational, border and migration cultures, including the monograph Writing Migration through the Body (2018) and the co-edited volume Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative (2015).