Eva Pelayo Sañudo

Spatialities in Italian American Women's Literature

Beyond the Mean Streets

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the family saga as an instrument of literary analysis of writing by Italian American Women, this book argues the family saga represents a key strategy for Italian American female writers as a form which distinctly allows writers to establish cultural, gender and literary traditions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9781032002248
• ISBN-10: 1032002247
• Artikelnr.: 69984348

Autorenporträt

Eva Pelayo Sañudo has a PhD in Gender and Diversity from the University of Oviedo, Spain. Her fields of research are Italian American literature, gender, diaspora, and urban and postcolonial studies. She completed her PhD in July 2017, with a thesis entitled Genre, Gender and Space: Family Sagas and Streets in the Italian/American Experience, for which she received the 2017 Prize of the Italian American Studies Association: the 'IASA Memorial Fellowship Distinction of Outstanding PhD Dissertation.' She has conducted research at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, NY), the University of Calabria (Italy) and Stony Brook University (NY), and participated in international conferences in the USA, Italy and Slovakia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction , 1. Icons of Ethnicity: Identity and Representation of
Italian Americans, 2 The Ethnic Flâneuse: The Right to the City and
Embodied Streets in Julia Savarese's The Weak and the Strong (1952) and
Marion Benasutti's No Steady Job for Papa (1966), 3 Elegies and Genealogies
of Place: Spatial Belonging in Helen Barolini's Umbertina (1979) and Tina
De Rosa's Paper Fish (1980), 4 Gendering the Urban Pioneers: Pictorial and
Emotional Geographies in Melania Mazzucco's Vita (2003) and Laurie
Fabiano's Elizabeth Street (2010), 5, Conclusions ,

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Introduction , 1. Icons of Ethnicity: Identity and Representation of Italian Americans, 2 The Ethnic Flâneuse: The Right to the City and Embodied Streets in Julia Savarese's The Weak and the Strong (1952) and Marion Benasutti's No Steady Job for Papa (1966), 3 Elegies and Genealogies of Place: Spatial Belonging in Helen Barolini's Umbertina (1979) and Tina De Rosa's Paper Fish (1980), 4 Gendering the Urban Pioneers: Pictorial and Emotional Geographies in Melania Mazzucco's Vita (2003) and Laurie Fabiano's Elizabeth Street (2010), 5, Conclusions ,

Rezensionen

"Spatialities in Italian American Women's Literature: Beyond the Mean Streets is a richly developed book that, through the lens of the family saga, explores the work of Italian American female writers at the intersection of gender and place. It is an enjoyable read, helpful for scholars in Italian and Italian American studies, cultural studies, and gender studies, but also for any students who confront themselves with the examination of the cultural representations of the Italian American community."
- Chiara Giuliani, University College Cork, Ireland