Afterword: Crazy in the Study: Trying to Claim a Tradition in Louise DeSalvo's -- Accented Writing / Anthony Julian Tamburri. Memoir: Louise DeSalvo's "Even in Death, La Bella Figura": A Meditation on Honor, Respect, and the Silences that Bind / Margaux Fragoso; The Poetics of Trauma: Intertextuality, Rhythm, and Concision in Vertigo and Writing as a Way of Healing / Peter Covino; Fixing and Fictioning: Memory and Catholicism in Vertigo / Jeana DelRosso; Portrait of the Mother as Writer and Researcher / Julija SĖukys; Louise DeSalvo: Essaying Memoir / Joshua Fausty -- Teaching: On Vulnerability and Risk: Learning to Write and Teach Memoir as a Student of Louise DeSalvo / Kym Ragusa; Fixing Things: What Louise DeSalvo Has Taught Me about Writing / Emiy Bernard; Dark Whiteness and Literacy without Assimilation: DeSalvo's Unlikely Narrative / Kimberly A. Costino; Mixing Bowl: On Crazy in the Kitchen, DeSalvo in the Classroom, and the Day I Got Into Hunter / Lia Ottaviano; Furthering the Voyage: Reconsidering DeSalvo in Contemporary Woolf Studies / Benjamin D. Hagen -- Culture: The Contexts of Louise DeSalvo's Impact: Incest in Virginia Woolf's Biography / Mark Hussey; "Thirty-seven is the Unraveling Time" and Other Fictions of Fidelity in the Works of Louise DeSalvo / Jenn Brandt; Life Online: Skating and Breaking the Surface of the Self / Amy Jo Burns; The Fruits of Her Labor: DeSalvo's Memoirs of Food and Family / Mary Jo Bona and Jennifer-Ann DiGregorio Kightlinger; Mapping the Female Ethnic Self in the Family Battleground: Vertigo and the Greek American Novel / Theodora Patrona; DeSalvo's Rialto: On Moving as a Livable Bridge / Ilaria Serra; The Knife and the Bread, the Brutal and the Sacred: Louise DeSalvo at the Family Table / John Gennari; Afterword: Crazy in the Study: Trying to Claim a Tradition in Louise DeSalvo's -- Accented Writing / Anthony Julian Tamburri.
Summary:
"Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of memoir writing, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives. More than an anthology, Personal Effects represents an author case study and an example for modern Italian American interdisciplinary scholarship. Personal Effects examines DeSalvo's memoirs as works that push the boundaries of the most controversial genre of the past few decades. In these works, the author fearlessly explores issues such as immigration, domesticity, war, adultery, illness, mental health, sexuality, the environment, and trauma through the lens of gender, ethnic, and working-class identity. Alongside her groundbreaking scholarship, DeSalvo's memoirs attest to the power and influence of this feminist Italian American writer"-- Provided by publisher. "The two editors and eighteen scholars and creative nonfiction writers offer a lucid view of a writer who has produced one of the most provocative bodies of memoir writing in contemporary US literature, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives"-- Provided by publisher.
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