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    "pk": 40839,
    "title": "Bare Life: Space and the Maternal in Laura Pugno’s La ragazza selvaggia",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "This study examines Laura Pugno’s engagement with the notion of \nbare life\n through the questions of space, primal desire, and maternity in \nLa ragazza selvaggia\n. Drawing on theories by Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, the first section of the study investigates how the political acts upon and presides over the biological in the novel's spatial dimensions. This analysis extends to the realm of writing, which constitutes the \nterritorio selvaggio \n[wild territory] of Pugno’s literary explorations. A Kristevan reading of Dasha and Nina's complicated relationship reveals the biopolitical tensions that underlie it. At the same time, an allegorical analysis of this dynamic considers them as incarnations of the \nsemiotic\n and the \nsymbolic\n, which are associated with \nzoē\n and \nbios\n, respectively. Turning its attention to the corporeal, the study ponders how the \nselvaggio\n is expressed through the body and simultaneously challenged by it. This analysis also uncovers the consequences of Agnese and Nina's unrealized reproductive and maternal identities through the Kristevan theory of abjection. Through this theoretical lens, the study demonstrates Pugno's problematization of the maternal and reproductive questions in the novel to argue that \nLa ragazza selvaggia \ncalls for new conceptions of \nzoē\n that transcend the patriarchal insistence on women's generative identity in society.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Bare Life"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Vol.10: Open Theme",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2g18j8mh",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Nina",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bjekovic",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UC Los Angeles",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2020-06-27T03:24:41+05:30",
    "date_accepted": "2020-06-27T03:24:41+05:30",
    "date_published": "2020-12-25T01:29:28+05:30",
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