附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.
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.
摘要:"Mary Jo Bona reconstructs the literary history and examines the narrative techniques of eight Italian American women's novels from 1940 to the present. Largely neglected until recently, these women's family narratives compel a reconsideration of what it means to be a woman and an ethnic in America."--Jacket.
