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Oriana Fallaci

The Rhetoric of Freedom

By: John Gatt-Rutter

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Paperback | 1 September 2010 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"Engaging for its thought and prose, Gatt-Rutter's study constructs a productive critical perspective that proposes new areas of inquiry for scholars working in diverse disciplines." --Modern Fiction Studies

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Acknowledgements
Reality and Rhetoric	p. 3
Hollywood Behind the Screen: I sette peccati di Hollywood (1958)	p. 27
The Female Hemisphere: Il sesso inutile: viaggio intorno alla donna (1961)	p. 37
The Self-Repleting Text: Penelope alla guerra (1962)	p. 45
The Self-Depleting Text: Lettera a un bambino mai nato (1975)	p. 61
Fallaci and the Tape-Recorder: Gli antipatici (1963) and Intervista con la storia (1974)	p. 89
To the Moon and Back: Se il sole muore (1965) and Quel giorno sulla luna (1970)	p. 102
To Vietnam and Back: Niente e cosi sia (1969)	p. 124
Alekos - A Greek Tragedy: Un uomo (1979)	p. 139
Plotting Chaos - Italians and Shiites in Beirut: InsciAllah (1990)	p. 148
The Fallaci Project: Freedom as an Absolute	p. 171
Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 202
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