Italian Americans on the Page
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
About this book
Approaches Italian American literature from new critical perspectives and explores contemporary and understudied voices from both the United States and Canada.
Italian Americans on the Page fills a significant gap in Italian American and Italian diaspora studies, particularly literature, as it explores four genres—fiction, poetry, memoir, and theater—from a variety of critical perspectives. The first section of the book offers reconsiderations of two canonical authors, Helen Barolini and Don DeLillo, while the other three sections bring new attention to understudied Italian American and Italian Canadian writers, including women and LGBTQIA+. These include Mary Jo Salter, Peter Covino, Louise DeSalvo, Karen Tintori, Juliet Grames, Ben Piazza, Salvatore Antonio, Christopher DiRaddo, Michele Linfante, Chris Cinque, Theresa Carilli, Mary Melfi, and Michaela Di Cesare. Each contribution approaches Italian American and Italian diaspora studies through a unique theoretical lens, adding to the richness of what proceeds this publication in the field. Ultimately, the volume offers rereadings of foundational Italian American works and provides newfound attention to understudied and emerging Italian diasporic voices.
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"This is an invaluable addition to the field of the Italian American studies. While offering new critical approaches to both canonical and noncanonical works, it also extends our understanding of LGBTQ writing in poetry, fiction, and dramatic literature, and it expands the coverage of Italian Americana to include the North American contributions of Canadian dramatists whose work builds on the coverage of traditional concerns with family life and turmoil." — Josephine Gattuso Hendin, New York University
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Rethinking the Past and Bridging the Future of Italian American Studies
1 - Section 1 Rereading the Italian American Canon Intersectionalizing the Narrative
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1 “Who Will Buy My Marriage Spread?” The Economy of Affects and the Construction of a Diasporic Domesticity in Helen Barolini’s Umbertina
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2 Dietrologia: Italian American Heritage and the Conspiracy of Postwar Whiteness in Don DeLillo’s Underworld
43 - Section 2 Confessionalism in Italian American Poets Moving Beyond Categories
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3 Hidden Roots: Mary Jo Paradise Salter and the Subtle Presence of Italian-ness
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4 Queering Italian American Poetry: Peter Covino’s Cut Off the Ears of Winter: Psychoanalysis, Performativity, Language
91 - Section 3 Blurring the Past, Redefining the Future: Italian Americans and Memoir
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5 Memoir and the Invention of Italian American Experience: A Tribute to Louise DeSalvo
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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
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7 The Very Queer Truth: Ben Piazza’s Italian Southerner
179 - Section 4 From Page to Stage: Italian Americans and Italian Canadians
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8 Queer Intimacies in Italian Canadian Literature
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9 Daughter-Mother Borderlands in Contemporary Italian American and Italian Canadian Theater
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List of Contributors
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Index
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