Abstract
ABSTRACT The coming-of-age genre is a productive site for the narration of female-centred stories of oppression and emancipation. In Italian women’s writing, it has been combined with unorthodox autobiography since the publication of the first Italian feminist novel by Sibilla Aleramo. With the emergence of the graphic novel format in Italy, a growing number of women comics artists have started populating Italian bookshops with semi-autobiographical graphic coming-of-age texts, acclaimed by critics and by the public alike. These include Cristina Portolano’s Quasi signorina (2016), Alice Milani and Silvia Rocchi’s Tumulto (2017), Fumettibrutti’s P. La mia adolescenza trans (2020), and Sara Garagnani’s Mor (2022). By means of a textual analysis that dialogues with theories on women’s writing, this article aims to identify the thematic and stylistic patterns used by Italian women graphic novelists to continue (though with substantial innovations) the tradition of the female autobiographical coming-of-age.
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