On the Eastern Woman’s Body: Ethnic Stigma and Complex Trauma in Giuseppe Tornatore’s La sconosciuta (2006).
This essay discusses the construction of a post-traumatic subjectivity in Tornatore’s La sconosciuta. Following a sex-trafficking survivor’s struggle against ghosts of the past as well as present forms of offences and vulnerabilities, the narrative unfolds through flashbacks and dramatizations of th...
| Publicado en: | Quaderni d'italianistica Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 83 - 111 |
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2022
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