Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors

by Edvige Giunta

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0312294697

ISBN13:9780312294694

Release Date:January 2002

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:203 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Related Subjects

American Literature Classics Criticism & Theory Education & Reference History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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