UID:
almahu_9949386807702882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781000390889
,
1000390888
,
9781003173243
,
1003173241
,
9781000390841
,
1000390845
Content:
"Examining the family saga as an instrument of literary analysis of writing by Italian American women, this book argues that the family saga represents a key strategy for Italian American female writers as a form which distinctly allows them to establish cultural, gender and literary traditions. Spaces are inherently marked by the ideology of the societies that create and practice them, and this volume engages with spaces of cultural and gendered identity, particularly those of the 'mean streets' in Italian American fiction, which provide a method of critically analysing the configurations and representations of identity associated with the Italian American community. Key authors examined include Julia Savarese, Marion Benasutti, Tina De Rosa, Helen Barolini, Melania Mazzucco and Laurie Fabiano. This book is suitable for students and scholars in Literature, Italian Studies, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies"--
Note:
Icons of ethnicity : identity and representation of Italian Americans -- The Italian American counter-flâneuse : the right to the city and embodied streets in Julia Savarese's The weak and the strong (1952) and Marion Benasutti's No steady job for Papa (1966) -- Genealogies of place : spatial belonging in Helen Barolini's Umbertina (1979) and Tina De Rosa's Paper fish (1980) -- Gendering the urban pioneers : pictorial and emotional geographies in Melania Mazzucco's Vita (2003) and Laurie Fabiano's Elizabeth Street (2006).
Additional Edition:
Print version: Pelayo Sañudo, Eva. Spatialities in Italian American women's literature Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. ISBN 9781032002248
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003173243
