Transmitting, Re-Telling. Narratives By Female Authors Of The Twentieth Meridian

Based on research in Intercultural studies concerning literary production of East-Central European female authors living in Italy, this article proposes an interdisciplinary analysis of a selection of texts in which a secondary narration is present, either as a testimony of funeral rituals in the authors’ country of origin or as a representation of a communication form involving women in moments of transition and/or crisis. The author’s suggestion is that this stylistic choice is related to a perception of the role of one’s own writing, while the act of re-telling acquires a special power in the eyes of the writers. The article also takes into consideration some interviews conducted with these authors, during which there is an exploration of their thoughts on the relationship between narrative and memory.