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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_133
dc.contributor.author	Camilotti Silvia
dc.title	Il viaggio delle donne nell’Africa coloniale italiana, tra conferma e trasformazione di sé
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	Different meanings of travelling are analysed in the writing of three women: Rosalia Bossiner, Alba Felter, Onorina Passerini. Bossiner spent three years in Eritrea, from 1893 to 1896, following her husband who had military roles in the colonial campaign. Felter travelled through different Italian colonies in Africa in the Thirties and her travelogue was informed by the fascist ideology, as well as the one written by Onorina Passerini who visited in 1932 the Fezzan, one the most unknown regions of Lybia. Despite the various historical periods of their travels, the several viewpoints and the different reasons that brought these women in the colonies, I argue that the travel becomes for all of them an occasion of empowerment, since it allows them to perform in ways that in the motherland were not permitted. The colony becomes, in the experience of these three women, an occasion for empowerment.
dc.relation.ispartof	Diaspore
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2015-12-01
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-055-6/il-viaggio-delle-donne-nellafrica-coloniale-italia/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-053-2/DIA-4-3
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8860
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9387
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-055-6
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-053-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	African colonies
dc.subject	African colonies
dc.subject	Italian women travellers
dc.subject	Italian women travellers
dc.subject	Travel writing
dc.subject	Travel writing

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Il viaggio delle donne nell’Africa coloniale italiana, tra conferma e trasformazione di sé

Silvia Camilotti Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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Different meanings of travelling are analysed in the writing of three women: Rosalia Bossiner, Alba Felter, Onorina Passerini. Bossiner spent three years in Eritrea, from 1893 to 1896, following her husband who had military roles in the colonial campaign. Felter travelled through different Italian colonies in Africa in the Thirties and her travelogue was informed by the fascist ideology, as well as the one written by Onorina Passerini who visited in 1932 the Fezzan, one the most unknown regions of Lybia. Despite the various historical periods of their travels, the several viewpoints and the different reasons that brought these women in the colonies, I argue that the travel becomes for all of them an occasion of empowerment, since it allows them to perform in ways that in the motherland were not permitted. The colony becomes, in the experience of these three women, an occasion for empowerment.

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Keywords: Travel writing • Italian women travellers • African colonies

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