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Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary
performs a ground-breaking intervention by uncovering the
relationship between literary cloth-working women and migration in
a range of American novels across centuries. Bona demonstrates how
four authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros,
and Adria Bernardi, innovate on pre-modern stories of weaving women
in order to explore the intricate connections between handwork,
resourcefulness, and mobility. Refracted through the lens of
women's migratory experiences vis-a-vis cloth-working aesthetics,
Women Writing Cloth examines varied aspects of sewing-embroidering,
quilting, and rebozo-making-as textual signifiers of mobility and
preservation. Through authorial innovation, women's handwork
constitutes a revolt against a devaluation of cultural heritage and
a distrust of the self. Women Writing Cloth argues that literary,
cloth-working women inspire paradigmatic shifts in social codes due
to portable skills that enabled their survival in the new world.
Bona paints a complex picture of women whose migratory experiences
taught them how to live within a stigmatizing culture and beneath
institutional powers to control their artistry. Fabric designs
assume fuller multicultural meaning when textiles cross borders and
tell unspeakable stories that expose constraints typifying gender,
race, and heritage. The authors examined simulate the artistic
creativity of cloth-work by interrogating traditional assumptions
about representation, chronology, and spatial boundaries. Women
Writing Cloth breaks new ground to reveal the elaborate
relationship between cloth-work expertise and women's mobility.
Variations of cloth-working women showcase a relationship between
subversive artistry and institutional oppressions that compel
strategies of resistance, enable survival, and, inspired by
migration, construct inventive fabric creations. Women Writing
Cloth engages the activity of cloth work as a means of reclamation
and subversive expression represented in American literature.
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.
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.
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