| Description |
357 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Mary Ann Mannino -- What I wanted to ask and say where and when this book was conceived... / Justin Vitiello -- Difference, identity, and Saint Augustine / Helen Barolini -- Breakage and beauty / Mary Cappello -- Toward a new Catholic novel: the Italian-American woman writer and the church / Rita Ciresi -- Breaking the jar/mending the jar / Louise DeSalvo -- Until the voices came / Rachel Guido DeVries -- Recollections of my life as a woman / Diane Di Prima -- Carta Parla / Maria Fama -- Adventures on the hyphen: poetry, pasta, and identity politics / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Shame and silence in my work / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Forging into the American mainstream since the 1960s: on being a woman writer with an Italian name / Daniela Gioseffi -- Usable past: writing to the hybrid future / Josephine Gattuso Hendin -- Notes of a lyric artist working in prose: a lifelong conversation with myself entered midway / Carole Maso -- "But is it great?": the question of the canon for Italian American women writers / Mary Jo Bona -- Double burden of Italian American women writers / Fred Gardaphé -- Speaking through silences: ethnicity in the writings of Italian/American women / Edvige Giunta -- Strains of an immigrant past: inherited habits of being / Mary Ann Mannino -- Beyond tautologies?: poetics of female and feminist "Italianità" in four anthologies of Italian American women's literature / Justin Vitiello |
| Subject |
American literature -- Italian American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Italian American authors. |
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Italian American women -- Intellectual life.
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Italian American women -- Intellectual life. |
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Italian American women. |
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Italian American women -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Italian Americans in literature.
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Italian Americans in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Mannino, Mary Ann Vigilante, 1943-
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Vitiello, Justin.
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| ISBN |
1557532435 alkaline paper |
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