Personal Effects - Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo (Hardcover)

Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo 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 DeSalvo'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, DeSalvo's memoirs attest to the power and influence of this feminist Italian American writer.

General

Imprint:	Fordham University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Studies in Italian America
Release date:	October 2014
First published:	October 2014
Editors:	Nancy Caronia • Edvige Giunta
Contributors:	Emily Bernard • Mary Jo Bona • Jenn Brandt • Amy Jo Burns • Kimberly A. Costino • Peter Covino • Jeana DelRosso • Jennifer-Ann Di Gregori-Kightlinger
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / Cloth
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-8232-6227-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-8232-6227-8
Barcode:	9780823262274

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