Spatialities in Italian American Women’s Literature: Beyond the Mean Streets
Eva Pelayo Sañudo, "Spatialities in Italian American Women’s Literature: Beyond the Mean Streets "
English | ISBN: 1032002247 | 2021 | 164 pages | EPUB | 347 KB
English | ISBN: 1032002247 | 2021 | 164 pages | EPUB | 347 KB
Examining the family saga as an instrument of literary analysis of writing by Italian American women, this book argues that the genre 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 analyzing 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.
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