{"product_id":"personal-effects-essays-on-memoir-teaching-and-culture-in-the-work-of-louise-desalvo-paperback","title":"Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNancy Caronia\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eEdvige Giunta\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eEmily Bernard\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lucid view of one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Louise DeSalvo.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCelebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, \u003ci\u003ePersonal Effects\u003c\/i\u003e offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of memoir writing, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives. More than an anthology, \u003ci\u003ePersonal Effects\u003c\/i\u003e represents an author case study and an example for modern Italian American interdisciplinary scholarship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePersonal Effects\u003c\/i\u003e examines DeSalvo's memoirs as works that push the boundaries of the most controversial genre of the past few decades. In these works, the author fearlessly explores issues such as immigration, domesticity, war, adultery, illness, mental health, sexuality, the environment, and trauma through the lens of gender, ethnic, and working-class identity. Alongside her groundbreaking scholarship, DeSalvo's memoirs attest to the power and influence of this feminist Italian American writer.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy Caronia (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nancy Caronia is a lecturer at University of Rhode Island. She teaches in the Honors Program, Gender \u0026amp; Women's Studies, and in the departments of English and Writing and Rhetoric. She works on issues of transnationalism and globalization in contemporary American and Anglophone ethnic literature and film. Her scholarly essays, reviews, creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eEssays on Italian American Literature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Delta Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDon't Tell Mama! The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2013. Her introduction to \u003ci\u003eCasting Off\u003c\/i\u003e will appear in Bordighera's reprint of DeSalvo's novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdvige Giunta (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Edvige Giunta is professor of English at New Jersey City University, where she teaches memoir and other literature and writing courses. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWriting with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDire l'indicibile\u003c\/i\u003e. She is co- editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (with Louise DeSalvo); \u003ci\u003eItalian American Writers on New Jersey \u003c\/i\u003e(with Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan); \u003ci\u003eTeaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (with Kathleen Zamboni McCormick); and \u003ci\u003eEmbroidered Stories: Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e (with Joseph Sciorra). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 03, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43678421385252,"sku":"9780823285891","price":41.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/tobieshouse.com\/products\/personal-effects-essays-on-memoir-teaching-and-culture-in-the-work-of-louise-desalvo-paperback","provider":"Tobies House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}