Contemporary rites of passage in Marina Colasanti

In this master's research defended in 2013 the author lists four short stories from Marina Colasanti's The Leopard is a Delicate Animal: Girl in Red on the Way to the Moon; The Leopard is a Delicate Animal; The Rules of the Game and Without Kneeling. The stories present rites of passage in different contexts although they share the same metamorphic dynamic characterised by passages because there is a correspondence between the different modes of passage: from darkness to light from the pre-existence of a human race to manifestation (mythical ancestor) from life to Death and the new post-mortem experience (the soul). The tales present characters who find themselves in transitional situations of rupture and which lead them to a significant existential change. Therefore the purpose of this work is to investigate the representations of rites in a contemporary and feminine narrative based on contemporary theorists such as Giorgio Agamben and Judith Butler among others.