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100 1  Giunta, Edvige. 
245 10 Writing with an accent :|bcontemporary Italian American 
       women authors /|cEdvige Giunta. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, N.Y. :|bPalgrave,|c2002. 
300    xix, 203 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-188) and 
       index. 
505 00 |t Preface: Writing with an Accent --  |t Introduction: 
       What's in an Accent? --  |t Of Women, Writing, and 
       Recognition --  |t Immigrant Literary Identities --  |t "A
       Song from the Ghetto" --  |t Speaking Through Silences, 
       Writing Against Silence --  |t "Spills of Mysterious 
       Substances" --  |t Forging Public Voices: Memory, Writing,
       Power --  |t Epilogue: Coming Home to Language. 
520    "Mary Cappello, Louise DeSalvo, Sandra M. Gilbert, Maria 
       Mazziotti Gillan, Carole Maso, Agnes Rossi. These are some
       of the best-known Italian American writers today. They are
       part of a literary tradition with mid-twentieth century 
       roots that began to develop, in earnest, in the late 1970s
       and early 1980s. During those decades, a number of Italian
       American women, such as Helen Barolini, began to publish 
       books that depicted their perspectives on life through the
       critical lenses of gender, class, and ethnicity. At the 
       end of the twentieth century, this literature finally 
       blossomed into a fully fledged cultural movement that also
       took into account issues of sexuality, age, illness, and 
       familial and societal abuse. Writing with an Accent takes 
       a look at this vibrant literary movement by discussing 
       those first writers of the 1970s and 1980s as well as 
       later authors. At the center of Edvige Giunta's Writing 
       with an Accent is the literal notion of accent, the marker
       of linguistic and cultural difference that separates and 
       identifies recent immigrants to the United States. In this
       study, an accent symbolically embodies the differences and
       creative strategies through which contemporary Italian 
       American women writers engage Italian American culture in 
       works of fiction, poetry, and memoir. Giunta also looks at
       the links between the literature and art, music, film, and
       video produced by contemporary Italian American women. The
       literature of the Italian American women in Writing with 
       an Accent is shaped by the complicated connections these 
       authors maintain with their cultural origins, but also, 
       and perhaps more importantly, by their feminist 
       consciousness and politicized sense of ethnic identity. 
       Writing with an Accent celebrates and explores a group of 
       authors who characteristically mix the joy and pain of 
       Italian American life to paint a multifaceted picture of 
       Italian American women and their complex place in U.S. 
       culture."--Jacket. 
650  0 American literature|xItalian American authors|xHistory and
       criticism. 
650  0 Women and literature|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th 
       century. 
650  0 American literature|xWomen authors|xHistory and criticism.
650  0 American literature|y20th century|xHistory and criticism. 
650  0 Italian American women|xIntellectual life. 
650  0 Italian Americans in literature. 
856 4  |3Table of Contents|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/
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856 42 |3Contributor biographical information|uhttp://www.loc.gov
       /catdir/bios/hol057/2001048209.html 
856 42 |3Publisher description|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/
       description/hol052/2001048209.html 
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