Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: “Habit of Mind” 1
5. Memoir
6. Louise DeSalvo’s “Even in Death, La Bella Figura”: A Meditation on Honor, Respect, and the Silences That Bind 37
7. The Poetics of Trauma: Intertextuality, Rhythm, and Concision in Vertigo and Writing as a Way of Healing 50
8. Fixing and Fictioning: Memory and Catholicism in Vertigo 62
9. Portrait of the Mother as a Writer and Researcher 75
10. Louise DeSalvo: Essaying Memoir 86
11. Teaching
12. On Vulnerability and Risk: Learning to Write and Teach Memoir as a Student of Louise DeSalvo 105
13. Fixing Things: What Louise DeSalvo Has Taught Me about Writing 111
14. Dark Whiteness and Literacy without Assimilation: DeSalvo’s Unlikely Narrative 117
15. Mixing Bowl: On Crazy in the Kitchen, DeSalvo in the Classroom, and the Day I Got into Hunter 130
16. Furthering the Voyage: Reconsidering DeSalvo in Contemporary Woolf Studies 140
17. Culture
18. The Context of Louise DeSalvo’s Impact: Incest in Virginia Woolf’s Biography 155
19. “Thirty- seven Is the Unraveling Time” and Other Fictions of Fidelity in the Works of Louise DeSalvo 169
20. Life Online: Skating and Breaking the Surface of the Self 179
21. The Fruits of Her Labor: Louise DeSalvo’s Memoirs of Food and Family 189
22. Mapping the Female Ethnic Self in the Family Battleground: Vertigo and the Greek American Novel 210
23. DeSalvo’s Rialto: On Moving as a Livable Bridge 222
24. The Knife and the Bread, the Brutal and the Sacred: Louise DeSalvo at the Family Table 233
25. Afterword. Crazy in the Study: Trying to Claim a Tradition in Louise DeSalvo’s Accented Writing 251
26. Contributors 261
27. Index 265