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- Title
The Black Madonna in the Italian American Artistic Imagination.
- Authors
Marino, Elisabetta
- Abstract
This essay sets out to explore the image of the black Madonna in Italian American artistic and literary expressions, providing thought-provoking examples of how this holy icon of universal motherhood has been persistently associated with the articulation of empowering strategies, with antagonism towards any kind of patriarchal restraints, with the healing of deeply ingrained divisions (of gender, class, ethnicity), and with the celebration of diversity in unity.
- Subjects
OUR Lady of Czestochowa (Icon); POLISH icons; MOTHERHOOD in art; MOTHERHOOD in literature; ITALIAN American literature
- Publication
Acta Neophilologica, 2017, Vol 50, Issue 1/2, p37
- ISSN
0567-784X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4312/an.50.1-2.37-56