Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo (Critical Studies in Italian America)

By: Emily Bernard and Mary-Jo Bona and Jenn Brandt and Amy Jo Burns and Kimberly A. Costino and Peter Covino and Jeana Del Rosso and Jennifer-Ann Di Gregori-Kightlinger and Joshua Fausty and Margaux Fragoso and John Gennari and Benjamin D. Hagen and Mark Hussey and Lia Ottaviano and Theodora Patrona and Kym Ragusa and Ilaria Serra and Julija Sukys and Anthony Julian Tamburri

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Synopsis: Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of memoir writing, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives. More than an anthology, Personal Effects represents an author case study and an example for modern Italian American interdisciplinary scholarship.Personal Effects examines DeSalvo’s memoirs as works that push the boundaries of the most controversial genre of the past few decades. In these works, the author fearlessly explores issues such as immigration, domesticity, war, adultery, illness, mental health, sexuality, the environment, and trauma through the lens of gender, ethnic, and working-class identity. Alongside her groundbreaking scholarship, DeSalvo’s memoirs attest to the power and influence of this feminist Italian American writer.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780823262281
Related ISBNs:: 9780823285891, 9780823262274
Publisher:: Fordham University Press
Date of Addition:: 10/26/24
Copyrighted By:: Fordham University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
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Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
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Edited by:: Nancy Caronia
Edited by:: Edvige Giunta