Breaking Open: Reflections on Italian American Women's Writing - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557532435 ISBN 13: 9781557532435

Verlag: Purdue University Press, 2003

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How does ones heritage impact creativity? Breaking Open explores the deepconnection between prominent Italian American women writers, their heritage,and their writing. In-depth discussions of these writers' family traditions andmemories of growing up in an American culture as an Italian child, includingthe difficulties of dueling dialects and dual cultures, explain how theirunique cultural connections have impacted their work. For many of thesewriters, there has been a distinctive separation between their involvement withtheir families, immersed as they were in the culture the immigrants brought tothis country, and their eventual rise to positions of prominence in academic orliterary circles in the United States. While reading Breaking Open, readers are encouraged to determine for themselveswhether or not this is the case. In trying to establish a unified identity,Italian American women writers face conflicting home values, those steeped inthe traditions of the Italians (immigrants) and those values emerging out of asense of what it means to be Italian-American. These differing views arefurther confounded by the beliefs of the overarching American society. Aswriters, they discuss the ways these conflicts are represented in their worksand discuss the ways their childhood memories of immigrants and their practiceshave been a strong foundation for their creativity. In addition, five scholarsin the field of Italian American literature critically analyze works by many ofthe creative writers in this anthology and discuss the future of the field.

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Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino is currently a visiting assistant professor of English at Temple University. Her most recent book, Revisionary Identities: Strategies of Empowerment in the Writing of Italian American Women, argues that current writers remember and write about their immigrant grandmothers as empowered women. A creative writer herself, her poem ""Jimmy Fahey"" was given first place in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards in 2001. She has published short stories and poetry in many literary journals.

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• Verlag: Purdue University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1557532435
• ISBN 13: 9781557532435
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 357
• Herausgeber: Mannino Mary Ann Vigilante, Vitiello Justin
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