Spatialities in Italian American Women's Literature: Beyond the Mean Streets

ISBN-13: 9781032002248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 164 str.

Pelayo Sa

Opis

Examining the family saga as an instrument of literary analysis of writing by Italian American Women, this book argues the family saga represents a key strategy for Italian American female writers as a form which distinctly allows writers to establish cultural, gender and literary traditions.

 

O autorze

Eva Pelayo Sañudo has a PhD in Gender and Diversity from the University of Oviedo, Spain. Her fields of research are Italian American literature, gender, diaspora, and urban and postcolonial studies. She completed her PhD in July 2017, with a thesis entitled Genre, Gender and Space: Family Sagas and Streets in the Italian/American Experience, for which she received the 2017 Prize of the Italian American Studies Association: the ‘IASA Memorial Fellowship Distinction of Outstanding PhD Dissertation.’ She has conducted research at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, NY), the University of Calabria (Italy) and Stony Brook University (NY), and participated in international conferences in the USA, Italy and Slovakia.