Personal effects : essays on memoir, teaching, and culture in the work of Louise DeSalvo / edited by Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta.

Relying on a multiplicity of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, scholars and creative non-fiction writers offer a lucid view of DeSalvo as a writer who has produced one of the largest and 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. More than an anthology, this collection represents a case study that serves as an intervention and example for Italian American interdisciplinary scholarship in the twenty-first century.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Habit of Mind"; Memoir; Louise DeSalvo's "Even in Death, La Bella Figura": A Meditation on Honor, Respect, and the Silences That Bind; The Poetics of Trauma: Intertextuality, Rhythm, and Concision in Vertigo and Writing as a Way of Healing; Fixing and Fictioning: Memory and Catholicism in Vertigo; Portrait of the Mother as a Writer and Researcher; Louise DeSalvo: Essaying Memoir; Teaching; On Vulnerability and Risk: Learning to Write and Teach Memoir as a Student of Louise DeSalvo; Fixing Things: What Louise DeSalvo Has Taught Me about Writing.

Dark Whiteness and Literacy without Assimilation: DeSalvo's Unlikely NarrativeMixing Bowl: On Crazy in the Kitchen, DeSalvo in the Classroom, and the Day I Got into Hunter; Furthering the Voyage: Reconsidering DeSalvo in Contemporary Woolf Studies; Culture; The Context of Louise DeSalvo's Impact: Incest in Virginia Woolf's Biography; "Thirty- seven Is the Unraveling Time" and Other Fictions of Fidelity in the Works of Louise DeSalvo; Life Online: Skating and Breaking the Surface of the Self; The Fruits of Her Labor: Louise DeSalvo's Memoirs of Food and Family.

Mapping the Female Ethnic Self in the Family Battleground: Vertigo and the Greek American NovelDeSalvo's Rialto: On Moving as a Livable Bridge; The Knife and the Bread, the Brutal and the Sacred: Louise DeSalvo at the Family Table; Afterword. Crazy in the Study: Trying to Claim a Tradition in Louise DeSalvo's Accented Writing; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.

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