Bona By the Breath of Their Mouths

Narratives of Resistance in Italian America
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-2997-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Italian/American Culture

Examines the liberating power of speech and its influence on generations of Italian American writers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bona, Mary Jo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Justice/Giustizia—Private Justice and the Folkloric Community in the World of Italian Americans

2. Faith/Fede—Plenty to Confess: Women and (Italian) American Catholicism

3. Story/Racconto—Una chiacchierata nel passato: Rosa and Marie of Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant

4. Land/Terra—Village People in Guido D’Agostino’s Novels

5. History Singer/Cantastorie—Vernacular Voices in Paule Marshall’s and Tina De Rosa’s Kunstlerromane

6. Precursor/Precursore—Mother’s Tongue: Italian American Daughters and Female Precursors

7. Death/Morte—What They Talk About When They Talk About Death

8. Revival/Risorgimento—Stories Continue: Shaping U.S. Italian American Writing

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Jo Bona is Professor of Italian American Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. Her books include Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers; The Voices We Carry: Recent Italian American Women's Fiction, Second Edition; and Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates, also published by SUNY Press.