Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity

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Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1999 - 224 strán (strany)

"A lively, lucid, and often extremely moving collection of essays."--Sandra Gilbert, author of Wrongful Death: A Memoir

"Barolini's essays moved me. Their commitment, their passion, their intelligence struck me very powerfully and made them among the most incisive essays on Italian-Americana, ethnicity, and diversity in literature that I have ever read."--Fred Misurella, author of Understanding Milan Kundera: Public Events, Private Affairs and Short Time

Part memoir, part social commentary, and part literary criticism, Chiaroscuro is not only profoundly original but also of crucial importance in establishing the contours of an Italian-American tradition. Spanning a quarter century of work, the essays in Helen Barolini's essays explore her personal search; literature as a formative influence; and the turning of the personal into the political. Included in Chiaroscuro is an updated re-introduction to Barolini's American Book Award-winning collection, The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian-American Women.

 

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Another Convent Story
10
Learned to Speak Italian
25
The Finer Things in Life
38
Shutting the Door on Someone
47
Looking for Mari Tomasi
54
Buried Alive by Language
64
Rome 1981
70
Bianca the Gulf War Saroyan and Me
96
Difference Identity and Saint Augustine
105
Umbertina and the Universe
115
The Case of the Missing Italian American Writers
124
Turtle out of Calabria
132
Bibliography
211
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Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity
Helen Barolini
Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1999
Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity
Helen Barolini
Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1997

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Helen Barolini is author of Umbertina and five other books. From the present collection, her essay "How I Learned to Speak Italian" was selected for The Best American Essays 1998.

Bibliografické informácie

NázovChiaroscuro: Essays of Identity
AutorHelen Barolini
Vydanieprepracované
VydavateľUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1999
Kód ISBN029916084X, 9780299160845
Dĺžka224 strán (strany)
  
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