On the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of Grazia Deledda, the Embassy of Italy in the Philippines, the Philippine Italian Association (PIA), the National Library of the Philippines (NLP), the Ateneo de Manila University, and the Italian Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines present Women Writing on the Margins, a literary webinar happening on November 22, 2021, 3:30 PM.
This online conference focuses on two women writers, Grazia Deledda from Sardinia, Italy and Magdalena Jalandoni from Iloilo, Philippines, and will discuss their lives, works, and their identification with their respective home-islands.
Hosted by the National Library of the Philippines, the webinar features two speakers, Dr. Stefania Lucamente from Italy and Dr. Alice Gonzalez from the Philippines who will discuss both Deledda and Jalandoni with a particular attention to the peculiar topics of their respective works: a sense of self and country, identity and traditions, women and society, language and history.
Dr. Stefania Lucamante, Professor of Italian Contemporary Literature at the University of Cagliari (Italy) and long time researcher in the representation of history and memory in Women’s contemporary literature and the role of passion in literature, will discuss From Marianna Sirca to Cosima: Transformation within Tradition in the Novelistic and Short-Story Works of Sardinian Writer and Nobel Prize Winner Grazia Deledda.
Dr. Alice Gonzalez, award-winning fictionist and faculty member of the University of the Philippine Visayas, will discuss three of Magdalena Jalandoni’s novels to show the processes by which women carve out their identities within and against the gender codes of a society in her paper Magdalena Jalandoni: Negotiating the Woman’s Subject-Position in Fiction and in Life.
An open forum moderated by the Ateneo Institute of Literary Arts and Practices will follow the presentations.
Interested participants can register through this link: https://bit.ly/NLPPIAWWM
Women Writing on the Margins is the second symposium on Italian literature in the Philippines hosted by the National Library of the Philippines. This follows the well-received conference Dante in the Philippines. Teaching and Translating Dante Today webinar held back in March 2021. This project is supported financially by the Embassy of Italy as part of its program for the XXI Week of the Italian Language 2021.
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