Transcultural narrative identities a study of memoir in contemporary anglophone women authors of the Italian diaspora / Eva Pelayo Sañudo, María Pilar Rodríguez.

Author/creator Pelayo Sañudo, Eva
Other author Rodríguez, María Pilar, 1964-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Peter Lang, 2025.
Descriptionpages cm.
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Subjects
American literature--Italian American authors. --History and criticism.
American literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Canadian literature--Italian authors. --History and criticism.
Canadian literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Autobiography--Women authors.
Autobiography--Italian American authors.
Autobiography--Canadian authors.
Italian diaspora.

SeriesInterdisciplinary studies in diaspora, 2378-0975 ; vol. 19
Contents Introduction: Theoretical considerations: memoir, gender, intersectional and transcultural perspectives / Pilar Rodríguez Pérez and Eva Pelayo Sañudo -- Italian American women coming of age: memoirs of childhood and adolescence. "And I will pass on, too, stories": matrilineal legacies and cultural context in Louise DeSalvo's elegiac memoirs Vertigo (1996) and Crazy in the kitchen: family, feud and forgiveness (2004) / Eva Pelayo Sañudo -- Portraits of the artist as a young woman: hybrid forms of the Bildungsroman through Diane di Prima's Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969) and Recollections of my life as a woman (2001) / Eva Pelayo Sañudo -- Space, emotion, and gender: mapping transcultural identity in Kym Ragusa's The skin between us: a memoir of race, beauty and belonging (2006) / Eva Pelayo Sañudo -- Italian Canadian women coming to terms with the past: memoirs of late life quests. The wellspring of nostalgia: memory, identity and trauma in Caterina Edwards's Finding Rosa: a mother with Alzheimer, a daughter in search of the past (2009) / Eva Pelayo Sañudo -- A maternal memoir: transmemory, transgenerational storytelling and transculturality in Mary Melfi's Italy revisited: conversations with my mother (2009) / Pilar Rodríguez Pérez -- "The road to now": recollecting the ethnic quest through the travel memoir in Penny Petrone's Breaking the Mould (1995) and Embracing Serafina: a memoir (2000) / Pilar Rodríguez Pérez.
Abstract "This book aims to offer a new space for the analysis of female experience in the Italian diaspora through a selected sample of representative writers in contemporary Anglophone literature. In addition, the book proposes memoir writing as a fruitful ground for literary and cultural research and as an important framework that can be applied to enlarge paradigms of identity in our increasingly diverse societies. Intersectional memoirs -texts written from the perspective of ethnic women- are the focus of this innovative study. It examines the formation of narratives of identity in contemporary writing, particularly looking at the expression of cultural and gender difference through the genre of memoir and within the US and Canadian contexts. The work of migrant/ethnic communities and marginalized voices located at the boundaries of nations, cultures, social classes and genders, is explored through the intertwined use of literary, feminist, racial and cultural memory theory supported with textual analysis"-- Provided by publisher.
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LCCN 2024049379
ISBN9781636675664 (hardcover)
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