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Article: Giancarlo Lombardi. Rooms with a View: Feminist Diary Fiction, 1952-1999.(Book Review)
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- Italica
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- June 22, 2003
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Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2002.
Giancarlo Lombardi's monograph is a timely and original work, offering a lively, well-argued, and opinionated examination of five decades of feminist diaries across Europe and North America. As its scope dictates, this book takes a cross-cultural perspective: it juxtaposes novelistic diaries (or novels written in the style of journals) in the Italian, French, British, and Canadian traditions, with full awareness of their cultural, religious, linguistic, and political differences. Lombardi has restricted his analysis to one specific (though contested, as he indicates at the end of his "Introduction" [27-28]) genre, ...