Writing with an accent : contemporary Italian American women authors / Edvige Giunta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giunta, Edvige.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Italian American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Italian American authors.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Italian American women--Intellectual life.

Italian American women.

American literature--Women authors.

United States.

History.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Italian Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

xix, 203 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

"Writing with an Accent" explores the variety of uses of ethnic voice in the narratives of contemporary Italian American women. Writers such as Mary Cappello, Louise DeSalvo, Agnes Rossi, Helen Barolini, Tina De Rosa, and Sandra M. Gilbert enact, in their works, a self-silencing of ethnic voice, critically modifying accepted representations and mythologies of Italian American culture through distinct and inventive narrative inflections. Accent, that which emphasizes and alters language, functions as the cultural and metaphorical lens through which Giunta reads a rich body of work that is still awaiting widespread recognition.

Contents:

Preface: Writing with an Accent ix

Introduction: What's in an Accent? 1

Chapter 1 Of Women, Writing, and Recognition 15

Chapter 2 Immigrant Literary Identities 35

Chapter 3 "A Song from the Ghetto" 53

Chapter 4 Speaking Through Silences, Writing Against Silence 71

Chapter 5 "Spills of Mysterious Substances" 93

Chapter 6 Forging Public Voices: Memory, Writing, Power 117

Epilogue: Coming Home to Language 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-188) and index.

ISBN:

0312221258

0312294697

OCLC:

47717845