Writing with an Accent : Contemporary Italian American Women Authors,9780312221256

Writing with an Accent : Contemporary Italian American Women Authors

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ISBN13: 9780312221256
ISBN10: 0312221258
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2002-01-12
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

"Writing with an Accent" explores the variety of uses of ethnic voice in the narratives of contemporary Italian American women. Writers such as Mary Cappello, Louise DeSalvo, Agnes Rossi, Helen Barolini, Tina De Rosa, and Sandra M. Gilbert enact, in their works, a self-silencing of ethnic voice, critically modifying accepted representations and mythologies of Italian American culture through distinct and inventive narrative inflections. Accent, that which emphasizes and alters language, functions as the cultural and metaphorical lens through which Giunta reads a rich body of work that is still awaiting widespread recognition.

Author Biography

Edvige Giunta is Associate Professor of English at New Jersey City University. She and Louise DeSalvo are the coeditors for the upcoming The Milk of Almonds, an anthology on Italian American women writing about food.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments v
Preface Writing with an Accent ix
Introduction What's in an Accent? 1(14)
Of Women, Writing, and Recognition
15(20)
Immigrant Literary Identities
35(18)
``A Song from the Ghetto''
53(18)
Speaking Through Silences, Writing Against Silence
71(22)
``Spills of Mysterious Substances''
93(24)
Forging Public Voices: Memory, Writing, Power
117(22)
Epilogue Coming Home to Language
139(6)
Notes 145(24)
Bibliography 169(20)
Index 189

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