Metaphorically the relationship between the mother figure and post-unified Italian in Luigi Pirandello and Maria Messina

• Grant number: 11/21885-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2012
• End date: December 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Literature Theory
• Principal Investigator: Francisco Claudio Alves Marques
• Grantee: Jéssica Cristina da Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

On the novels "L´altro figlio" and "La Mèrica" the writers Luigi Pirandello e Maria Messina employ e consolidate the "figure" as a mother tropical within the Italian literature of the first phase of nine hundred, presumably in an attempt to establish a relationship between the mother metaphorically lonely and abandoned by her husband or sons, who sailed to America, and the catastrophic social reallidade Italian post-unified and trauma due to mass emigration. How is this construction of this mother/Italy within the narrative to be analyzed and historical aspects of Italian social reality this supposed relationship is intended to represent metaphorically?