Representations of Lethal Gender-Based Violence in Italy Between Journalism and Literature

Nicoletta Mandolini is FCT researcher at CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal. At CECS, she works on the project "Sketch That Story and Make It Popular" using Graphic Narratives in Italian and Lusophone Feminist Activism Against Gender Violence (www.sketchthatstory.com). She was previously FWO postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven, Belgium, and received her PhD from University College Cork, Ireland. Funded by the Irish Research Council, her doctorate project focused on the representation of gender-based violence and feminicide in contemporary Italian journalistic and literary narratives. She is coeditor of Rappresentare la violenza di genere. Sguardi femministi tra critica, attivismo e scrittura (2018), and the author of several articles.

Introduction: Femminicidio in Italy and the Ethics of Its Representation 1. Beyond the Principle of Objective Narrative 2. Il sangue delle donne (2014) by Alvaro Fiorucci 3. Se questi sono gli uomini (2012) by Riccardo Iacona 4. Quello che resta (2014) by Serena Maiorana 5. Between Fiction and Non-Fiction. Femicide in Italian Literature 6. Re-Writing Journalistic Narratives. Fiore… come me (2013) by Giuliana Covella and Nessuna più (2013), edited by Marilù Oliva 7. Re-Writing History. La scuola cattolica (2016) by Edoardo Albinati 8. Re-Writing the Myth. Padreterno (2015) by Caterina Serra Conclusions