Claiming a tradition : Italian American women writers /

"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 eth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bona, Mary Jo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1999.
Colección:Ad feminam.
Temas:
American literature > Italian American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History.
Italian American women > Intellectual life.
American literature > Italian influences.
Italian Americans in literature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine italienne > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > Écrivaines > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire.
Américaines d'origine italienne > Vie intellectuelle.
Littérature américaine > Influence italienne.
Américains d'origine italienne dans la littérature.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature > Italian American authors
American literature > Italian influences
American literature > Women authors
Italian American women > Intellectual life
Italian Americans in literature
Literature
Women and literature
Italy > In literature.
Italie > Dans la littérature.
Italy
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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