Title: Claiming a tradition
Subtitle: Italian American women writers
Description: "Mary Jo Bona reconstructs the literary history and examines the narrative techniques of eight Italian American women's novels from 1940 to the present. Largely neglected until recently, these women's family narratives compel a reconsideration of what it means to be a woman and an ethnic in America."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: American literature, History, History and criticism, In literature, Intellectual life, Intellectual life., Italian American authors, Italian American women, Italian Americans in literature, Italian influences, Women and literature, Women authors, Emigration and immigration in literature, Italy, in literature, American literature, women authors
Places: Italy, United States