By the breath of their mouths : narratives of resistance in Italian America / Mary Jo Bona.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bona, Mary Jo.

Series:

SUNY series in Italian/American culture.

SUNY series in Italian/American culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Italian Americans in literature.

Italian Americans--Intellectual life.

Italian Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In By the Breath of Their Mouths, Mary Jo Bona examines the oral uses of language and the liberating power of speech in Italian American writing, as well as its influences on generations of assimilated Italian American writers. Probing and wide-ranging, Bona's analysis reveals the lasting importance of storytelling and folk narrative, their impact on ethnic, working-class, and women's literatures, and their importance in shaping multiethnic literature. Drawing on a wide range of material from several genres, including oral biographies, fiction, film, poetry, and memoir, and grounded in recent theories of narrative and autobiography, postcolonial theory, and critical multiculturalism, By the Breath of Their Mouths is must reading for students in Italian American studies in particular and ethnic studies and multiethnic literature more generally.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Justice/Giustizia

Faith/Fede

Story/Racconto

Land/Terra

History Singer/Cantastorie

Precursor/Precursore

Death/Morte

Revival/Risorgimento

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438429977

1438429975

9781441635440

1441635440

OCLC:

560612707