University of Wisconsin Press, 1999 Paper: 978-0-299-16084-5 Library of Congress Classification PS3552.A725C47 1999 Dewey Decimal Classification 814.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
“A lively, lucid, and often extremely moving collection of essays.”—Sandra Gilbert, author of Wrongful Death: A Memoir
“Barolini’s essays moved me. Their commitment, their passion, their intelligence struck me very powerfully and made them among the most incisive essays on Italian-Americana, ethnicity, and diversity in literature that I have ever read.”—Fred Misurella, author of Understanding Milan Kundera: Public Events, Private Affairs and Short Time
Part memoir, part social commentary, and part literary criticism, Chiaroscuro is not only profoundly original but also of crucial importance in establishing the contours of an Italian-American tradition. Spanning a quarter century of work, the essays in Helen Barolini’s essays explore her personal search; literature as a formative influence; and the turning of the personal into the political. Included in Chiaroscuro is an updated re-introduction to Barolini’s American Book Award-winning collection, The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian-American Women.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Helen Barolini is author of Umbertina and five other books. From the present collection, her essay “How I Learned to Speak Italian” was selected for The Best American Essays 1998.
REVIEWS
“Needs to be on the shelves of every American Library and in the minds of every Italian American.”—Fred L. Gardaphé, Italian America
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
The Way of the World
Another Convent Story
How I Learned to Speak Italian
The Finer Things in Life
Shutting the Door on Someone
Looking for Mari Tomasi
Buried Alive by Language
Rome, 1981
Bianca, the Gulf War, Saroyan and Me
Difference, Identity, and Saint Augustine
Umbertina and the Universe
The Case of the Missing Italian American Writers
Turtle out of Calabria
Reintroducing The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women
Bibliography
Index
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University of Wisconsin Press, 1999 Paper: 978-0-299-16084-5
“A lively, lucid, and often extremely moving collection of essays.”—Sandra Gilbert, author of Wrongful Death: A Memoir
“Barolini’s essays moved me. Their commitment, their passion, their intelligence struck me very powerfully and made them among the most incisive essays on Italian-Americana, ethnicity, and diversity in literature that I have ever read.”—Fred Misurella, author of Understanding Milan Kundera: Public Events, Private Affairs and Short Time
Part memoir, part social commentary, and part literary criticism, Chiaroscuro is not only profoundly original but also of crucial importance in establishing the contours of an Italian-American tradition. Spanning a quarter century of work, the essays in Helen Barolini’s essays explore her personal search; literature as a formative influence; and the turning of the personal into the political. Included in Chiaroscuro is an updated re-introduction to Barolini’s American Book Award-winning collection, The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian-American Women.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Helen Barolini is author of Umbertina and five other books. From the present collection, her essay “How I Learned to Speak Italian” was selected for The Best American Essays 1998.
REVIEWS
“Needs to be on the shelves of every American Library and in the minds of every Italian American.”—Fred L. Gardaphé, Italian America
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
The Way of the World
Another Convent Story
How I Learned to Speak Italian
The Finer Things in Life
Shutting the Door on Someone
Looking for Mari Tomasi
Buried Alive by Language
Rome, 1981
Bianca, the Gulf War, Saroyan and Me
Difference, Identity, and Saint Augustine
Umbertina and the Universe
The Case of the Missing Italian American Writers
Turtle out of Calabria
Reintroducing The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women
Bibliography
Index
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