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Introduction: Indelible / Indelebile (Non-refereed) (Luciana d’Arcangeli and Claire Kennedy)

 

Literary works and analysis of literary works:

• Prose poem “Christmas Day” / “Il giorno di Natale” (Stephanie Green; Italian translation by Luciana d’Arcangeli)

• Potiphar’s Wife and Susanna: An intersectional reading of the biblical episodes (Genesis 39:6-20; Daniel 13) and a medieval Latin rewriting (Benedetta Viscidi)

• Folktales and patriarchal ethics: Case study of the persecuted maiden in Giambattista Basile and Margaret Atwood (Matteo Cardillo)

• The human-animal: Primality, rape, and resistance in Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things (Christie Fogarty)

• Short story “Vagina Protest” (Elaigwu Ameh; with recorded reading by Luciana d’Arcangeli)

 

Creative practice:

• Seeing through the bars; speaking our way out: How creative work helps us confront (in)visible violences in tertiary education and beyond (Corinna Di Niro and Amelia Walker) 

• Imaging Affront, Crisis and Survival (Essay, non-refereed) (Lucienne Fontannaz)

• Daphne: A violent libretto, annotated (Non-refereed) (Fleur Kilpatrick)

 

TV series:

• Violence and the “Gothic New Woman” in Penny Dreadful (Stephanie Green) 

• A double take on sexual violence: Mirroring Spain’s La Manada rape trial in the television series La otra mirada (2018-2019) (B. Elisabeth Sim) 

 

Italian cinema: 

• La vita (im)possibile delle donne nel cinema italiano (Foreword, non-refereed) (Vito Zagarrio)

• Zavattini’s and Lizzani’s search for pure realism: Between political engagement and gendered structural violence on (un)real prostitutes (Marco Paoli) 

• Vesna va veloce: resistenza attraverso realtà e fantasia (Valentina Ippolito) 

 

* This special issue was inspired by the conference “Indelible (Eng) / Indelebile (It) – Representation in the Arts of (In)Visible Violence Against Women and their Resistance”, held in Adelaide, Australia, 23-25 October 2019, funded by the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS).