Personal Effects : : Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo / / ed. by Nancy Caronia, Edvige Giunta.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Bernard, Emily,; Bona, Mary Jo,; Bona, Mary-Jo,; Brandt, Jenn,; Burns, Amy Jo,; Caronia, Nancy,; Costino, Kimberly A.,; Covino, Peter,; Del Rosso, Jeana,; DelRosso, Jeana,; Di Gregori-Kightlinger, Jennifer-Ann,; DiGregorio Kightlinger, Jennifer-Ann,; Fausty, Joshua,; Fragoso, Margaux,; Gennari, John,; Giunta, Edvige,; Hagen, Benjamin D.,; Hussey, Mark,; Jo Burns, Amy,; Ottaviano, Lia,; Patrona, Theodora,; Ragusa, Kym,; Serra, Ilaria,; Sukys, Julija,; Tamburri, Anthony Julian,; Šukys, Julija,
• HerausgeberIn: Caronia, Nancy,; Giunta, Edvige,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Studies in Italian America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: “Habit of Mind”
• Memoir
• Louise DeSalvo’s “Even in Death, La Bella Figura”: A Meditation on Honor, Respect, and the Silences That Bind
• The Poetics of Trauma: Intertextuality, Rhythm, and Concision in Vertigo and Writing as a Way of Healing
• Fixing and Fictioning: Memory and Catholicism in Vertigo
• Portrait of the Mother as a Writer and Researcher
• Louise DeSalvo: Essaying Memoir
• Teaching
• On Vulnerability and Risk: Learning to Write and Teach Memoir as a Student of Louise DeSalvo
• Fixing Things: What Louise DeSalvo Has Taught Me about Writing
• Dark Whiteness and Literacy without Assimilation: DeSalvo’s Unlikely Narrative
• Mixing Bowl: On Crazy in the Kitchen, DeSalvo in the Classroom, and the Day I Got into Hunter
• Furthering the Voyage: Reconsidering DeSalvo in Contemporary Woolf Studies
• Culture
• The Context of Louise DeSalvo’s Impact: Incest in Virginia Woolf’s Biography
• “Thirty- seven Is the Unraveling Time” and Other Fictions of Fidelity in the Works of Louise DeSalvo
• Life Online: Skating and Breaking the Surface of the Self
• The Fruits of Her Labor: Louise DeSalvo’s Memoirs of Food and Family
• Mapping the Female Ethnic Self in the Family Battleground: Vertigo and the Greek American Novel
• DeSalvo’s Rialto: On Moving as a Livable Bridge
• The Knife and the Bread, the Brutal and the Sacred: Louise DeSalvo at the Family Table
• Afterword. Crazy in the Study: Trying to Claim a Tradition in Louise DeSalvo’s Accented Writing
• Contributors
• Index