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Personal effects essays on memoir, teaching, and culture in the work of Louise DeSalvo

Title
Personal effects [electronic resource] : essays on memoir, teaching, and culture in the work of Louise DeSalvo / edited by Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta.
Publication
New York : Fordham University Press, [2015]

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Additional Authors
  • Caronia, Nancy.
  • Giunta, Edvige.
Description
1 online resource (x, 276 pages)
Summary
  • "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"--
  • "The two editors and eighteen scholars and creative nonfiction writers offer a lucid view of a writer who has produced one of the most provocative bodies of memoir writing in contemporary US literature, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives"--
Series Statement
Critical studies in Italian America
Uniform Title
Personal effects (Online)
Subject
DeSalvo, Louise A., 1942-2018 > Criticism and interpretation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: -- Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta, "Habit of Mind" -- I -- Memoir -- Margaux Fragoso, "Louise DeSalvo's 'Even in Death, La Bella Figura': A Meditation on Honor, Respect, and the Silences that Bind" -- Peter Covino, "The Poetics of Trauma: Intertextuality, Rhythm, and Concision in Vertigo and Writing as a Way of Healing" -- Jeana DelRosso, "Fixing and Fictioning: Memory and Catholicism in Vertigo" -- Julija Sukys, "Portrait of the Mother as Writer and Researcher" -- Joshua Fausty, "Louise DeSalvo: Essaying Memoir" -- II -- Teaching -- Kym Ragusa, "On Vulnerability and Risk: Learning to Write and Teach Memoir as a Student of Louise DeSalvo" -- Emiy Bernard, "Fixing Things: What Louise DeSalvo Has Taught Me about Writing" -- Kimberly A. Costino, "Dark Whiteness and Literacy without Assimilation: DeSalvo's Unlikely Narrative" -- Lia Ottaviano, "Mixing Bowl: On Crazy in the Kitchen, DeSalvo in the Classroom, and the Day I Got Into Hunter" -- Benjamin D. Hagen, "Furthering the Voyage: Reconsidering DeSalvo in Contemporary Woolf Studies" -- III -- Culture -- Mark Hussey, "The Contexts of Louise DeSalvo's Impact: Incest in Virginia Woolf's Biography" -- Jenn Brandt, "'Thirty-seven is the Unraveling Time' and Other Fictions of Fidelity in the Works of Louise DeSalvo"' -- A.J. Kandathil, "Life Online: Skating and Breaking the Surface of the Self" -- Mary Jo Bona and Jennifer-Ann DiGregorio Kightlinger, "The Fruits of Her Labor: DeSalvo's Memoirs of Food and Family" -- Theodora Patrona, "Mapping the Female Ethnic Self in the Family Battleground: Vertigo and the Greek American Novel" -- Ilaria Serra, "DeSalvo's Rialto: On Moving as a Livable Bridge" -- John Gennari, "The Knife and the Bread, the Brutal and the Sacred: Louise DeSalvo at the Family Table" -- Afterword -- Anthony Julian Tamburri, "Crazy in the Study: Trying to Claim a Tradition in Louise DeSalvo's -- Accented Writing" -- Notes on ContributorsIndex.
LCCN
2014021937
OCLC
ssj0001335681
Title
Personal effects [electronic resource] : essays on memoir, teaching, and culture in the work of Louise DeSalvo / edited by Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta.
Imprint
New York : Fordham University Press, [2015]
Edition
First edition.
Series
Critical studies in Italian America
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Caronia, Nancy.
Giunta, Edvige.
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