Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise Desalvo (Critical Studies in Italian America) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823262278 ISBN 13: 9780823262274

Verlag: Fordham University Press, 2014

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A lucid view of one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Louise DeSalvo.

Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of memoir writing, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives. More than an anthology, Personal Effects represents an author case study and an example for modern Italian American interdisciplinary scholarship.

Personal Effects examines DeSalvo’s memoirs as works that push the boundaries of the most controversial genre of the past few decades. In these works, the author fearlessly explores issues such as immigration, domesticity, war, adultery, illness, mental health, sexuality, the environment, and trauma through the lens of gender, ethnic, and working-class identity. Alongside her groundbreaking scholarship, DeSalvo’s memoirs attest to the power and influence of this feminist Italian American writer.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Nancy Caronia (Edited By)
Nancy Caronia is a lecturer at University of Rhode Island. She teaches in the Honors Program, Gender & Women’s Studies, and in the departments of English and Writing and Rhetoric. She works on issues of transnationalism and globalization in contemporary American and Anglophone ethnic literature and film. Her scholarly essays, reviews, creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Essays on Italian American Literature and Culture, New Delta Review, and Don’t Tell Mama! The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2013. Her introduction to Casting Off will appear in Bordighera’s reprint of DeSalvo’s novel.

Edvige Giunta (Edited By)
Edvige Giunta is professor of English at New Jersey City University, where she teaches memoir and other literature and writing courses. She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and Dire l’indicibile. She is co- editor of The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture (with Louise DeSalvo); Italian American Writers on New Jersey (with Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan); Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture (with Kathleen Zamboni McCormick); and Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora (with Joseph Sciorra).



Nancy Caronia is a Lecturer in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Rhode Island. A recipient of URI's 2013 Diversity Award and a Pushcart Prize nominee, she has published numerous essays, fiction, and poetry in many journals and anthologies

Edvige Giunta is Professor of English at New Jersey City University where she teaches memoir. She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and the coeditor of four books on Italian American literature and culture.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0823262278
• ISBN 13: 9780823262274
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276
• Herausgeber: Caronia Nancy, Giunta Edvige
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