Title: Revisionary identities
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.
Subjects: American literature, Group identity in literature, History and criticism, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Intellectual life, Italian American authors, Italian American women, Italian Americans in literature, Power (Social sciences) in literature, Women and literature, Women authors, Italian americans, American literature, women authors, Italian american literature, Women intellectuals
Places: United States