{"product_id":"personal-effects-9780823262274","title":"Personal Effects","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe two editors and eighteen scholars and creative nonfiction writers offer a lucid view of a writer who has produced one of the most provocative bodies of memoir writing in contemporary US literature, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A very important contribution in the field of Italian American studies, ethnic studies, cultural studies, feminist studies, literary studies in general, and studies on the memoir in particular. Personal Effects explores Louise DeSalvo's work as a memoir writer, teacher, and scholar, illustrating the contribution Italian American authors can give both to Italian culture and to American culture and literature.\" -- -Caterina Romeo Sapienza Universita di Roma \"Wide-ranging, sophisticated,and stylish, Personal Effects is both a brilliant tribute to a powerful scholar-memoirist and a significant contribution to Italian-American studies and cultural studies more generally. It is a collection to savor!\" -- -Sandra Mortola Gilbert author of The Culinary Imagination \"The essays in Personal Effects do more than bear witness to the extraordinary achievement of Louise DeSalvo; they extend and amplify her inquiry into the nature of self, the politics of identity, the consequences of trauma. No study of memoir, of biography, of the role of literary criticism in the understanding of our time, can be complete without this multifaceted colloquy. Like the work of DeSalvo herself, this is a book of heartfelt intelligence and brilliant passion.\" -- -Richard Hoffman author of Half the House, and Love \u0026amp; Fury \"Personal Effects is a significant contribution to DeSalvo scholarship. It is a stunning example of the power of blending literary and cultural criticism with creative nonfiction.\" -- -Roseanne Giannini Quinn DeAnza College \"With equal parts scholarship and creativity, Personal Effects penetrates the diversity and importance of DeSalvo's body of work. These thoughtful, disquieting, and insightful essays perfectly mirror the very essence of this vital American author.\" -- -Domenica Ruta author of With or Without You\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: “Habit of Mind” 1\u003cbr\u003e Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMemoir\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Louise DeSalvo’s “Even in Death, \u003ci\u003eLa Bella Figura\u003c\/i\u003e”: A Meditation on Honor, Respect, and the Silences That Bind 37\u003cbr\u003e Margaux Fragoso\u003cbr\u003e The Poetics of Trauma: Intertextuality, Rhythm, and Concision in \u003ci\u003eVertigo \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWriting as a Way of Healing\u003c\/i\u003e 50\u003cbr\u003e Peter Covino\u003cbr\u003e Fixing and Fictioning: Memory and Catholicism in \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e 62\u003cbr\u003e Jeana Delrosso \u003cbr\u003e Portrait of the Mother as a Writer and Researcher 75\u003cbr\u003e Julija Sukys\u003cbr\u003e Louise DeSalvo: Essaying Memoir 86\u003cbr\u003e Joshua Fausty\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTeaching\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On Vulnerability and Risk: Learning to Write and Teach Memoir as a Student of Louise DeSalvo 105\u003cbr\u003e Kym Ragusa \u003cbr\u003e Fixing Things: What Louise DeSalvo Has Taught Me about Writing 111\u003cbr\u003e Emily Bernard\u003cbr\u003e Dark Whiteness and Literacy without Assimilation: DeSalvo’s Unlikely Narrative 117\u003cbr\u003e Kimberly A. Costino\u003cbr\u003e Mixing Bowl: On \u003ci\u003eCrazy in the Kitchen\u003c\/i\u003e, DeSalvo in the Classroom, and the Day I Got into Hunter 130\u003cbr\u003e Lia Ottaviano\u003cbr\u003e Furthering the Voyage: Reconsidering DeSalvo in Contemporary Woolf Studies 140\u003cbr\u003e Benjamin D. Hagen\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCulture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Context of Louise DeSalvo’s \u003ci\u003eImpact\u003c\/i\u003e: Incest in Virginia Woolf’s Biography 155\u003cbr\u003e Mark Hussey\u003cbr\u003e “Thirty- seven Is the Unraveling Time” and Other Fictions of Fidelity in the Works of Louise DeSalvo 169\u003cbr\u003e Jenn Brandt\u003cbr\u003e Life Online: Skating and Breaking the Surface of the Self 179\u003cbr\u003e Amy Jo Burns\u003cbr\u003e The Fruits of Her Labor: Louise DeSalvo’s Memoirs of Food and Family 189\u003cbr\u003e Mary Jo Bona and Jennifer-Ann DiGregorio Kightlinger\u003cbr\u003e Mapping the Female Ethnic Self in the Family Battleground: \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e and the Greek American Novel 210\u003cbr\u003e Theodora Patrona\u003cbr\u003e DeSalvo’s Rialto: \u003ci\u003eOn Moving\u003c\/i\u003e as a Livable Bridge 222\u003cbr\u003e Ilaria Serra \u003cbr\u003e The Knife and the Bread, the Brutal and the Sacred: Louise DeSalvo at the Family Table 233\u003cbr\u003e John Gennari \u003cbr\u003e Afterword. Crazy in the Study: Trying to Claim a Tradition in Louise DeSalvo’s Accented Writing 251\u003cbr\u003e Anthony Julian Tamburri\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors 261\u003cbr\u003e Index 265\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406139138391,"sku":"9780823262274","price":52.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823262274.jpg?v=1730494659","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/personal-effects-9780823262274","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}