This book aims to offer a new space for the analysis of female experience in the Italian diaspora through a selected sample of representative writers in contemporary Anglophone literature. In addition, the book proposes memoir writing as a fruitful ground for literary and cultural research and as an important framework that can be applied to enlarge paradigms of identity in our increasingly diverse societies. Intersectional memoirs -texts written from the perspective of ethnic women- are the focus of this innovative study. It examines the formation of narratives of identity in contemporary...