TY - BOOK AU - Bernard,Emily AU - Bona,Mary Jo AU - Bona,Mary-Jo AU - Brandt,Jenn AU - Burns,Amy Jo AU - Caronia,Nancy AU - Costino,Kimberly A. AU - Covino,Peter AU - Del Rosso,Jeana AU - DelRosso,Jeana AU - Di Gregori-Kightlinger,Jennifer-Ann AU - DiGregorio Kightlinger,Jennifer-Ann AU - Fausty,Joshua AU - Fragoso,Margaux AU - Gennari,John AU - Giunta,Edvige AU - Hagen,Benjamin D. AU - Hussey,Mark AU - Jo Burns,Amy AU - Ottaviano,Lia AU - Patrona,Theodora AU - Ragusa,Kym AU - Serra,Ilaria AU - Sukys,Julija AU - Tamburri,Anthony Julian AU - Šukys,Julija TI - Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo T2 - Critical Studies in Italian America SN - 9780823262274 U1 - 809 23 PY - 2014///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Fordham University Press, KW - Gender & Sexuality KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors KW - bisacsh KW - American literature KW - Ethnicity KW - Italian American KW - Memoir KW - Nonfiction KW - Vertigo KW - Virginia Woolf KW - creative writing KW - creativity KW - feminist KW - food KW - teaching KW - women writers KW - working class N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 transformed countless lives. More than an anthology, Personal Effects represents an author case study and an example for modern Italian American interdisciplinary scholarship.Personal Effects examines DeSalvo’s memoirs as works that push the boundaries of the most controversial genre of the past few decades. In these works, the author fearlessly explores issues such as immigration, domesticity, war, adultery, illness, mental health, sexuality, the environment, and trauma through the lens of gender, ethnic, and working-class identity. Alongside her groundbreaking scholarship, DeSalvo’s memoirs attest to the power and influence of this feminist Italian American writer UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823262298?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823262298 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823262298/original ER -