The Milk of Almonds (ePub)
Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture
(Sprache: Englisch)
"A vast, thoroughly wonderful assortment of poetry, memoirs and stories . . . that defines today's female Italian-American experience" (Publishers Weekly).
Often stereotyped as nurturing others through food, Italian-American women have often struggled...
Often stereotyped as nurturing others through food, Italian-American women have often struggled...
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"A vast, thoroughly wonderful assortment of poetry, memoirs and stories . . . that defines today's female Italian-American experience" (Publishers Weekly).
Often stereotyped as nurturing others through food, Italian-American women have often struggled against this simplistic image to express the realities of their lives.
In this unique collection, over 50 Italian-American female writers speak in voices that are loud, boisterous, sweet, savvy, and often subversively funny. Drawing on personal and cultural memories rooted in experiences of food, they dissolve conventional images, replacing them with a sumptuous, communal feast of poetry, stories, and memoir.
This collection also delves into unexpected, sometimes shocking terrain as these courageous authors bear witness to aspects of the Italian American experience that normally go unspoken-mental illness, family violence, incest, drug addiction, AIDS, and environmental degradation.
As provocative as it is appetizing, "this collection of verse and prose pieces . . . reveals the evocative and provocative power of food as event and as symbol, as well as the diversity of these women's lives and their ambivalence regarding the role of nurturer" (Library Journal).
Often stereotyped as nurturing others through food, Italian-American women have often struggled against this simplistic image to express the realities of their lives.
In this unique collection, over 50 Italian-American female writers speak in voices that are loud, boisterous, sweet, savvy, and often subversively funny. Drawing on personal and cultural memories rooted in experiences of food, they dissolve conventional images, replacing them with a sumptuous, communal feast of poetry, stories, and memoir.
This collection also delves into unexpected, sometimes shocking terrain as these courageous authors bear witness to aspects of the Italian American experience that normally go unspoken-mental illness, family violence, incest, drug addiction, AIDS, and environmental degradation.
As provocative as it is appetizing, "this collection of verse and prose pieces . . . reveals the evocative and provocative power of food as event and as symbol, as well as the diversity of these women's lives and their ambivalence regarding the role of nurturer" (Library Journal).
Autoren-Porträt von Edvige Guinta
Louise DeSalvo is the author of Vertigo, Breathless and Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work. She teaches at Hunter College, CUNY. Edvige Giunta is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors (forthcoming) and teaches at New Jersey City University. Both editors live in Teaneck, New Jersey.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Edvige Guinta
- 2018, 368 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Louise DeSalvo, Edvige Giunta
- Verlag: The Feminist Press at CUNY
- ISBN-10: 1936932105
- ISBN-13: 9781936932108
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.12.2018
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“The pieces in this impressive anthology are, with varying degrees, gentle and piercing . . . A vast, thoroughly wonderful assortment of poetry, memoirs and stories from more than 50 writers that defines today’s female Italian-American experience . . . These pieces will undoubtedly prompt female readers to contemplate the influence of their own grandmothers, mothers and aunts; the comfort of their culture and cuisine; and their own place in the world.” —Publishers Weekly“This collection of verse and prose pieces . . . reveals the evocative and provocative power of food as event and as symbol, as well as the diversity of these women’s lives and their ambivalence regarding the role of nurturer.” —Library Journal
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