Articles liés à Oriana Fallaci: The Rhetoric of Freedom
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Synopsis
This text argues that Oriana Fallaci is an awkward presence on Italian bookshelves, in world journalism, and among feminists. An outspoken champion of freedom and justice at every level and in every sphere, she was a war correspondent in Vietnam, has provacatively interviewed world personalities from Henry Kissinger (who felt that the interview he gave her was the biggest mistake he had ever made) to the Ayatollah Khomeini and Alfred Hitchcock. She has written several novels uncomfortably close to raw reality which have been bestsellers in Italy and widely translated. Fallaci, a fully emancipated and successful woman in the man's world of international political and battlefront journalism, has antagonized many feminists by her outright individualism, her championship of motherhood, and her idolization of heroic manhood. In journalism, her critics havve felt that she has outraged the conventions of interviewing and reporting. As a novelist, she shatters the invisible diaphragm of literariness, and is accused of betraying, or simply failinf literature. This study examines the implications of the storms and silences that Fallaci keeps rousing. It explores her relationship with the feminist movement, as well as the implications of her work for the debate on the relationship between "high" and "low" literary culture.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Oriana Fallaci (b. 1930) is an awkward presence on Italian bookshelves, in world journalism and among feminists. This book, the first literary study of Fallaci, examines the implications of the storms and silences that she keeps rousing. A fully emancipated and successful woman in the man's world of political journalism, she has antagonised many feminists by her championship of motherhood and her idolization of heroic manhood. In journalism, her critics have felt that she has outraged the conventions of interviewing and reporting. As a novelist, she shatters the invisible diaphragm of literariness and is accused of betraying, or simply failing, literature. This book focuses on Fallaci's direct engagement as a writer with major political and social issues such as women's liberation, Vietnam, Islamic fundamentalism and the space programme. A distinctive and controversial feature of her writing is the way in which she blurs the interface between reportage and fiction in an attempt to obliterate the gap that separates the word from the world.
Biographie de l'auteur
John Gatt-Rutter Vaccari is Professor of Italian Studies, La Trobe University, Australia
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