Transcultural narrative identities : a study of memoir in contemporary Anglophone women authors of the Italian diaspora /

"This book aims to offer a new space for the analysis of female experience in the Italian diaspora through a selected sample of representative writers in contemporary Anglophone literature. In addition, the book proposes memoir writing as a fruitful ground for literary and cultural research and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Pelayo Sañudo, Eva (Author), Rodríguez, María Pilar, 1964- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Peter Lang, [2025]
Series:	Interdisciplinary studies in diasporas ; v. 19.
Subjects:	American literature > Italian American authors > History and criticism. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Canadian literature > Italian authors > History and criticism. Canadian literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Autobiography > Women authors. Autobiography > Italian American authors. Autobiography > Canadian authors. Italian diaspora. Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine italienne > Histoire et critique. Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique. Écrits de femmes autobiographiques. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Theoretical considerations: memoir, gender, intersectional and transcultural perspectives / Pilar Rodríguez Pérez and Eva Pelayo Sañudo
Italian American women coming of age: memoirs of childhood and adolescence. "And I will pass on, too, stories": matrilineal legacies and cultural context in Louise DeSalvo's elegiac memoirs Vertigo (1996) and Crazy in the kitchen: family, feud and forgiveness (2004) / Eva Pelayo Sañudo
Portraits of the artist as a young woman: hybrid forms of the Bildungsroman through Diane di Prima's Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969) and Recollections of my life as a woman (2001) / Eva Pelayo Sañudo
Space, emotion, and gender: mapping transcultural identity in Kym Ragusa's The skin between us: a memoir of race, beauty and belonging (2006) / Eva Pelayo Sañudo
Italian Canadian women coming to terms with the past: memoirs of late life quests. The wellspring of nostalgia: memory, identity and trauma in Caterina Edwards's Finding Rosa: a mother with Alzheimer, a daughter in search of the past (2009) / Eva Pelayo Sañudo
A maternal memoir: transmemory, transgenerational storytelling and transculturality in Mary Melfi's Italy revisited: conversations with my mother (2009) / Pilar Rodríguez Pérez
"The road to now": recollecting the ethnic quest through the travel memoir in Penny Petrone's Breaking the Mould (1995) and Embracing Serafina: a memoir (2000) / Pilar Rodríguez Pérez.