The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and CultureEdvige Giunta, Louise DeSalvo Feminist Press at CUNY, 15 mar 2017 - 368 pagine “A vast, thoroughly wonderful assortment of poetry, memoirs and stories . . . that defines today’s female Italian-American experience” (Publishers Weekly). Often stereotyped as nurturing others through food, Italian-American women have often struggled against this simplistic image to express the realities of their lives. In this unique collection, over 50 Italian-American female writers speak in voices that are loud, boisterous, sweet, savvy, and often subversively funny. Drawing on personal and cultural memories rooted in experiences of food, they dissolve conventional images, replacing them with a sumptuous, communal feast of poetry, stories, and memoir. This collection also delves into unexpected, sometimes shocking terrain as these courageous authors bear witness to aspects of the Italian American experience that normally go unspoken—mental illness, family violence, incest, drug addiction, AIDS, and environmental degradation. As provocative as it is appetizing, “this collection of verse and prose pieces . . . reveals the evocative and provocative power of food as event and as symbol, as well as the diversity of these women’s lives and their ambivalence regarding the role of nurturer” (Library Journal). |
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Dizzy Spells Dorothy Bryant | |
My Childrens Names Janet Zandy | |
Breakfast Lunch and Dinner Agnes Rossi | |
Can Be Bread Anne Marie Macari | |
Tripe Lucia Perillo | |
The Room Anne Marie Macari | |
The Oven Rosette Capotorto | |
Paterson New Jersey Maria Mazziotti Gillan | |
Coffee an Joanna Clapps Herman | |
Working Men Phyllis Capello | |
Kissing the Bread Sandra M Gilbert | |
The Anthology Poems Mary Ann Mannino | |
We Begin with Food Rosette Capotorto | |
The Origins of Milk Daniela Gioseffi | |
Broke Rosette Capotorto | |
My Grandmother a Chicken and Death Regina Barreca | |
If You Were a Boy Rosette Capotorto | |
The Lives of the Saints Suzanne Antonetta | |
The Exegesis of Eating Alane Salierno Mason | |
What Theyll Say in a Thousand Years Maria Terrone | |
Polenta Denise Calvetti Michaels | |
The Northside at Seven Lucia Perillo | |
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