Revisionary identities
Subtitle: strategies of empowerment in the writing of Italian/American women
By: Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino.
Series: Studies in Italian culture--Literature in history ;; vol. 29
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: American literature -- Italian American authors -- History and criticism.; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Italian American women -- Intellectual life.; Women and literature -- United States.; Power (Social sciences) in literature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Italian Americans in literature.; Group identity in literature.
Description: "Italian Americans, the fifth-largest ethnic group in the United States, make up a large segment of the population. It is only recently that the daughters and granddaughters of Italian immigrants have begun to write fiction and poetry about their experiences as Italian/American women.

Revisionary Identities focuses on the writings of these women and argues that their works reveal a new identity that is composed of both Italian and American elements but which is neither completely Italian nor totally American. For these writers the categories of race, class, gender, and religion blur causing conflicts, which they try to resolve by imagining an all-powerful immigrant grandmother with whom they form a bond."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-193) and index.