Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise De Salvo 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 De Salvo’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, De Salvo’s memoirs attest to the power and influence of this feminist Italian American writer.
Зміст
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: “Habit of Mind” 1
Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta
Memoir
Louise De Salvo’s “Even in Death, La Bella Figura”: A Meditation on Honor, Respect, and the Silences That Bind 37
Margaux Fragoso
The Poetics of Trauma: Intertextuality, Rhythm, and Concision in Vertigo and Writing as a Way of Healing 50
Peter Covino
Fixing and Fictioning: Memory and Catholicism in Vertigo 62
Jeana Delrosso
Portrait of the Mother as a Writer and Researcher 75
Julija Sukys
Louise De Salvo: Essaying Memoir 86
Joshua Fausty
Teaching
On Vulnerability and Risk: Learning to Write and Teach Memoir as a Student of Louise De Salvo 105
Kym Ragusa
Fixing Things: What Louise De Salvo Has Taught Me about Writing 111
Emily Bernard
Dark Whiteness and Literacy without Assimilation: De Salvo’s Unlikely Narrative 117
Kimberly A. Costino
Mixing Bowl: On Crazy in the Kitchen, De Salvo in the Classroom, and the Day I Got into Hunter 130
Lia Ottaviano
Furthering the Voyage: Reconsidering De Salvo in Contemporary Woolf Studies 140
Benjamin D. Hagen
Culture
The Context of Louise De Salvo’s Impact: Incest in Virginia Woolf’s Biography 155
Mark Hussey
“Thirty- seven Is the Unraveling Time” and Other Fictions of Fidelity in the Works of Louise De Salvo 169
Jenn Brandt
Life Online: Skating and Breaking the Surface of the Self 179
Amy Jo Burns
The Fruits of Her Labor: Louise De Salvo’s Memoirs of Food and Family 189
Mary Jo Bona and Jennifer-Ann Di Gregorio Kightlinger
Mapping the Female Ethnic Self in the Family Battleground: Vertigo and the Greek American Novel 210
Theodora Patrona
De Salvo’s Rialto: On Moving as a Livable Bridge 222
Ilaria Serra
The Knife and the Bread, the Brutal and the Sacred: Louise De Salvo at the Family Table 233
John Gennari
Afterword. Crazy in the Study: Trying to Claim a Tradition in Louise De Salvo’s Accented Writing 251
Anthony Julian Tamburri
List of Contributors 261
Index 265
Про автора
Theodora Patrona is affiliated with the School of English of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece, as Special Teaching Fellow (EDIP). She is the author of Return Narratives: Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature.
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