Italian Women Writers 18002000 Boundaries Borders and Transgression investigates narrative autobiography and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today focusing on topics of spatial and cultural boundaries border identities and expressions of excluded identities. This book discusses works by known and lessknown writers as well as by some new writers Sibilla Aleramo La Marchesa Colombi Giuliana Morandini Elsa Morante Neera Matilde Serao Ribka Sibhatu Patrizia Valduga Annie Vivanti Laila Waida among others writers who in their works have manifested transgression to confinement and entrapment either social cultural or professional or who have given significance to national and transnational borders or have employed particular narrative strategies to give voice to what often exceeds expression. Through its contributions the volume demonstrates how Italian women writers have negotiated material as well as social and cultural boundaries and how their literary imagination has created dimensions of boundarycrossing.