Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors

ISBN-13: 9780312294694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 203 str.

Edvige Giunta

Opis

Writing with an Accent explores the variety of uses of ethnic voice in the narratives of contemporary Italian American women. Writers such as Mary Cappello, Louise DeSalvo, Agnes Rossi, Helen Barolini, Tina De Rosa, and Sandra M. Gilbert enact, in their works, a self-silencing of ethnic voice, critically modifying accepted representations and mythologies of Italian American culture through distinct and inventive narrative inflections. Accent, that which emphasizes and alters language, functions as the cultural and metaphorical lens through which Giunta reads a rich body of work that is still awaiting widespread recognition.

Recenzje

"I ve hungered for a book like this! Edi Giunta may have written specifically about Italian American women writers but I ve found it to be universal in many, many illuminating ways." - Nancy Savoca, filmmaker

"In language that is as lyrical as it is lucid, Edvige Giunta infuses new meaning into the voicing of accents, moving beyond shame and difference into power and presence for Italian American women writers and for us all." - Janet Zandy, Rochester Institute of Technology

"In an Italian-accented voice that is no less friendly than it is forthright, Edvige Giunta has much to talk about. . . . Correcting cultural misconceptions is central to her work." - The New York Times

Writing with an Accent makes a strong case that the Italian American community has much to thank its women artists for.

-Women's Review of Books

O autorze

Edvige Giunta is Associate Professor of English at New Jersey City University. She and Louise DeSalvo are the coeditors for the upcoming The Milk of Almonds, an anthology on Italian American women writing about food.