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Breaking open : reflections on Italian American women's writing / edited by Mary Ann Mannino and Justin Vitiello.
- Format:
- Book
- 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.
- Italian American women--Intellectual life.
- American literature--Women authors.
- United States.
- History.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Italian American women--Biography.
- Italian Americans in literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 357 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Breaking Open explores the deep connection between prominent Italian American women writers, their heritage, and their writing. In-depth discussions of these writersAE family traditions and memories of growing up in an American culture as an Italian child,
- Contents:
- What I Wanted to Ask and Say Where and When This Book Was Conceived... / Justin Vitiello 19
- Difference, Identity, and Saint Augustine / Helen Barolini 31
- Breakage and Beauty / Mary Cappello 43
- Toward a New Catholic Novel: The Italian-American Woman Writer and the Church / Rita Ciresi 51
- Breaking the Jar/Mending the Jar / Louise DeSalvo 59
- Until the Voices Came / Rachel Guido deVries 73
- Recollections of My Life As a Woman / Diane di Prima 91
- La Carta Parla / Maria Fama 109
- Adventures on the Hyphen: Poetry, Pasta, and Identity Politics / Sandra M. Gilbert 137
- Shame and Silence in My Work / Maria Mazziotti Gillan 153
- Forging into the American Mainstream since the 1960s: On Being a Woman Writer with an Italian Name / Daniela Gioseffi 177
- A Usable Past: Writing to the Hybrid Future / Josephine Gattuso Hendin 195
- Notes of a Lyric Artist Working in Prose: A Lifelong Conversation with Myself Entered Midway / Carole Maso 215
- "But Is It Great?": The Question of the Canon for Italian American Women Writers / Mary Jo Bona 239
- The Double Burden of Italian American Women Writers / Fred Gardaphe 265
- Speaking Through Silences: Ethnicity in the Writings of Italian/American Women / Edvige Giunta 279
- Stains of an Immigrant Past: Inherited Habits of Being / Mary Ann Mannino 301
- Beyond Tautologies?: Poetics of Female and Feminist "Italianita" in Four Anthologies of Italian American Women's Literature / Justin Vitiello 323.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1557532435
- OCLC:
- 50866799
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