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Claiming a tradition : Italian American women writers / Mary Jo Bona. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bona, Mary Jo.
- Series:
- Ad feminam
- Ad feminam Claiming a tradition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Italian American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Women and literature--United States--History.
- Women and literature.
- Italian American women--Intellectual life.
- Italian American women.
- American literature--Italian influences.
- Italian Americans in literature.
- Italy--In literature.
- Italy.
- American literature--Italian American authors--History and criticism--United States.
- American literature--History and criticism--Women authors.
- Women and literature--History.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 253 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Mary Jo Bona reconstructs the literary history and examines the narrative techniques of eight Italian American women's novels from 1940 to the present. Largely neglected until recently, these women's family narratives compel a reconsideration of what it means to be a woman and an ethnic in America."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Family novels of development: Mari Tomasi's Like lesser gods and Marion Benasutti's No steady job for Papa
- "Growing down": arrested development in the family narratives of Octavia Waldo's A cup of the sun and Josephine Gattuso Hendin's The right thing to do
- Remembering their names: the developmental journeys in Diana Cavallo's A bridge of leaves and Dorothy Bryant's Miss Giardino
- A process of reconstruction: recovering the grandmother in Helen Barolini's Umbertina and Tina de Rosa's Paper fish
- Recent developments in Italian American women's literary traditions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-241) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-585-35289-5
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