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Tra legge, corpo e simbolo. La paternità omosessuale e la cultura androcentrica in Sei come sei di Melania G. Mazzucco

Barbara Kornacka

Abstract

The following paper analyzes the theme of homosexual paternity. It analyzes Mazzucco’s novel on three different levels: the legal and social context, the gender perspective, and the level of literary and artistic symbols. In each of these areas we can observe the importance given to traditional paternity, seen as legal power or divine creation of the men. On the contrary, homosexual paternity is excluded by law, denied as containing maternal elements, and endowed with modest symbolic power.

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Kornacka, B. Tra legge, corpo e simbolo. La paternità omosessuale e la cultura androcentrica in <i>Sei come sei</i> di Melania G. Mazzucco. Romanica Silesiana, 12(1). Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RS/article/view/7167

Vol. 12 (2017)
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ISSN: 1898-2433
eISSN: 2353-9887

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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