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Tralli, Lucia. 2023. “ ‘Ho ricominciato così tante volte nella vita che Pasqua è diventata il mio secondo compleanno’. Lo spazio domestico tra gioco e cura del sé dell’Ambragram”. In “ ‘Ho ucciso l’angelo del focolare’. Lo spazio domestico e la libertà ritrovata”, edited by Lucia Cardone, Anna Masecchia, Farah Polato, Beatrice Seligardi, Giulia Simi, Arabeschi 21.
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ABSTRACT PRIN 2017
DaMA – Drawing a Map
of Italian Actresses in Writing
Led by the University of Sassari (Principal Investigator Lucia Cardone),
it involves the University of Catania (Research Unit Leader: Maria
Rizzarelli) and the University of Napoli Federico II (Research Unit Leader:
Maria Rizzarelli).
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  As Stardom studies have shown (Amossy              analysis through interdisciplinary approaches;
1986, Dyer 1979), from their origins and up          their classification and mapping through a digital
to the present day, film stars have engaged in       platform which will be available in 2024. The
self-narratives, through autobiographies, public     open access web platform, which also explores
diaries, columns in magazines and newspapers         Digital Humanities tools, will allow to have an
to define their star persona. Yet, they also         overall view of the corpus and to access content
engaged in proper literary practice by publishing    selected according to a taxonomic classification
novels, poems, memoir stories. What they have        that reflects the main themes emerged: from
produced is a wide archipelago of writings           meta-reflections on acting to the phenomenology
almost completely overlooked or misrecognized        of women emancipation, from the practices
by both Film Studies and Literary Studies. DaMA      of self-performance to the intersections with
– Drawing a Map of Italian Actresses in Writing      historical events, places, and persons (like
—aims at exploring the writing production of         writers, film directors, artists, producers).
Italian actresses, by drawing on transdisciplinary     By involving three Research Units, this study
methodologies and key research areas as              has been articulated into different approaches
Stardom and Performance Studies, Film Studies,       and analysis. The unit of Sassari explored the
Comparative Literature, Celebrities Studies,         Italian “divagrafie” corpus in relation to the
Women’s and Gender Studies. DaMA has                 studies on stardom and performance, and
accomplished, in its three years research, an        the studies on women’s self-narration. The
initial analysis and mapping of the varied forms     autobiographies of the actresses have been the
of writing produced by Italian actresses which       main objects of investigation, namely in the form
define the corpus—so far composed of about           of publications published in volume which blend
100 texts, and still in the process of becoming—     stories of life and cinema with a first-person
of what Maria Rizzarelli has called “divagrafie”     narration (Cardone 2023; Piana 2023; Simi 2021).
[divagraphs] (2021).                                   The Research Unit of the University of Catania
                                                     focused specifically on the literary dimension of
  The research work has been developed in
                                                     “divagrafie”, by building a theoretical approach
three phases: the recognition and retrieval
                                                     on textual typologies and critical categories on
of texts produced by Italian actresses; their


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the side of fiction writing. The unit has mainly
aimed at developing a theoretical reflection on
the “double talent” concept (Cometa 2014) trying
to extend this category, formulated in the field
of visual culture studies, to the relationship
between literature and performance so to
verify its hermeneutical fertility (Pontillo 2021,
2020,2021; Rizzarelli 2021).
  The Research Unit of the University of Naples
Federico II investigated the most contemporary
scenario, with particular attention to the last
decades, by analysing the different types of
actresses’ production, from publications in
volume up to the fluid writings of social networks
(Masecchia 2020; Prosperi 2023; Tralli 2023).




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