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Extreme childhood: Children, adults, and coming-of-age in contemporary Italian novel.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Extreme childhood: Children, adults, and coming-of-age in contemporary Italian novel./
Author:	Bellorio, Gabriella.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	231 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-08A(E).
Subject:	Romance literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10584720
ISBN:	9781369634785

Extreme childhood: Children, adults, and coming-of-age in contemporary Italian novel.
Bellorio, Gabriella.

Extreme childhood: Children, adults, and coming-of-age in contemporary Italian novel. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 231 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2017.

This dissertation examines five contemporary Italian novels that focus on the traumatic and violent coming-of-age of the child protagonists and their dysfunctional relationships with inadequate adults/parents. Deploying a variety of interpretive tools drawn from literary, sociological, psychoanalytical, and philosophical approaches, this study investigates whether---and if so, then in what ways---these narratives may be read collectively as a literary symptom exposing a form of social uneasiness having to do with the concept of coming-of-age. More specifically, it explores the problematic relationship between children and grown-ups, which indirectly touches on the ideas of the future, of legacy, of ethics, indeed of our presence in the world. This hypothesis stems from the fact that these novels are the literary expression of a social context in which the pervasive presence of the media has blurred the line between authenticity and fiction (i.e. between trauma and its mere representation) eradicating the notion of childhood as such. As a result, the traumatic coming-of-age process, traditionally codified by initiation rites organized by elders, is nowadays fragmented into a myriad of apparently unimportant but potentially disturbing event---for instance, finding specific information online---that do not imply the presence of a grown-up and therefore jeopardize the role and identity of adults as mentors.

ISBN: 9781369634785Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144781
Romance literature.

Extreme childhood: Children, adults, and coming-of-age in contemporary Italian novel.
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