A volte ritorna: Monique Wittig e l’Italia

Sometimes she returns. Monique Wittig and Italy
The article reconstructs the impact of Monique Wittig’s writings in Italy. It highlights the constant removal of a passionate way of thinking characterized by an unwillingness to mediate, which re-surfaces after generations at a time when a new rigid counter-code is appearing in feminist and post-feminist debates. Wittig is a figure of excess, an extraordinary creator of linguistic inventions, who revolutionizes languages and syntactic structures, mixes literary genres, destructures political axioms. She is loved and hated with the same polemic ardour. Yet, even when all traces of her writings seem to have been lost, she inevitably returns.