Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Rethinking the Past and Bridging the Future of Italian American Studies 1
5. Section 1 Rereading the Italian American Canon Intersectionalizing the Narrative
6. 1 “Who Will Buy My Marriage Spread?” The Economy of Affects and the Construction of a Diasporic Domesticity in Helen Barolini’s Umbertina 21
7. 2 Dietrologia: Italian American Heritage and the Conspiracy of Postwar Whiteness in Don DeLillo’s Underworld 43
8. Section 2 Confessionalism in Italian American Poets Moving Beyond Categories
9. 3 Hidden Roots: Mary Jo Paradise Salter and the Subtle Presence of Italian-ness 71
10. 4 Queering Italian American Poetry: Peter Covino’s Cut Off the Ears of Winter: Psychoanalysis, Performativity, Language 91
11. Section 3 Blurring the Past, Redefining the Future: Italian Americans and Memoir
12. 5 Memoir and the Invention of Italian American Experience: A Tribute to Louise DeSalvo 127
13. 6 Criminalizing Desire: An Intersectional Approach to Patriarchy’s Monsters in Karen Tintori’s Unto the Daughters: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian American Family and Juliet Grames’s The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna 151
14. 7 The Very Queer Truth: Ben Piazza’s Italian Southerner 179
15. Section 4 From Page to Stage: Italian Americans and Italian Canadians
16. 8 Queer Intimacies in Italian Canadian Literature 195
17. 9 Daughter-Mother Borderlands in Contemporary Italian American and Italian Canadian Theater 213
18. List of Contributors 249
19. Index 253