Altrelettere

Aims & Scope

The journal altrelettere, founded in 2012 at the Chair of Italian Literature at the University of Zurich, publishes articles related to the writing of and about women in the field of Italian literature, without chronological limitations and in the main European languages. Articles are grouped by centuries, authors, themes, and genre, provided with a digital DOI identifier and also listed in order of publication. Individual sections list the published texts, available in pdf. Click on RSS to receive update notifications. The journal has obtained, according to the modalities and criteria of the ANVUR Regulation for the classification of journals in Non-Bibliometric Areas, Fascia A for Area 10, disciplinary sector 10/F2 (Contemporary Italian Literature). The title of this journal, all lowercase and without spaces, would like, in summary, to also serve as a presentation of our editorial line: lowercase, to affirm, ironically, an obliterated uppercase presence and, with it, the necessity to deconstruct and reread the canon of Italian literature from the perspective of women; all lowercase and without spaces because women's writings, which will form the core of the reflections hosted here, are not an extraneous body to the literary operation as presented by tradition, and because, indeed, these 'other' protagonists are placed in a relationship of (critical and lively) contiguity with what - depending on the times and attitudes - they have been kept away from, have distanced themselves from, or have drawn inspiration from. In this sense, creating a journal to give space to the writing of and about women, as subjects and objects of literary representation, means neither proposing ideological separatism as an exegetical practice, nor stopping at the purely fundamental path of (re)constructing a female genealogy, but rather, in a theoretical perspective open to gender studies in all their declinations, constituting a place for reflection on the multiplicity of perspectives, representations, socio-cultural and stylistic-formal practices that constitute literature as a whole. The point - to put it a bit with, but also a bit against, Judith Butler - is not to remain marginal, but to make visible a positioning, a worldview, a political commitment. Building on the experience of those who, over the years, have intervened methodologically by proposing additions, re-visions, and restitutions to refine the "toolbox" of studies on women's writings, we intend to bring critical attention back to a variety of writing practices whose richness, when focused, is outlined as such: with the force of an indispensable contribution to the vitality, variety, creativity, and beauty of Italian literature.

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