Table of Contents: Claiming a tradition :

Main Author:	Bona, Mary Jo.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1999.
Series:	Ad feminam
Subjects:	American literature > Italian American authors > History and criticism. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Women and literature > History. > United States Italian American women > Intellectual life. American literature > Italian influences. Italian Americans in literature. Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine italienne > Histoire et critique. Littérature américaine > Écrivaines > Histoire et critique. Femmes et littérature > Histoire. > États-Unis Américaines d'origine italienne > Vie intellectuelle. Littérature américaine > Influence italienne. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. American literature > Italian American authors. American literature > Women authors. Literature. Women and literature. Italy > In literature. Italie dans la littérature. Italy.
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Table of Contents:

Family novels of development: Mari Tomasi's Like lesser gods and Marion Benasutti's No steady job for Papa
"Growing down": arrested development in the family narratives of Octavia Waldo's A cup of the sun and Josephine Gattuso Hendin's The right thing to do
Remembering their names: the developmental journeys in Diana Cavallo's A bridge of leaves and Dorothy Bryant's Miss Giardino
A process of reconstruction: recovering the grandmother in Helen Barolini's Umbertina and Tina de Rosa's Paper fish
Recent developments in Italian American women's literary traditions.