Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo

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.

Author: Nancy Caronia
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 10/15/2014
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780823262274
ISBN10: 0823262278
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Women Authors
- Social Science | Women's Studies

About the Author

Nancy Caronia is a Lecturer in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Rhode Island. A recipient of URI's 2013 Diversity Award and a Pushcart Prize nominee, she has published numerous essays, fiction, and poetry in many journals and anthologies

Edvige Giunta is Professor of English at New Jersey City University where she teaches memoir. She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and the coeditor of four books on Italian American literature and culture.