Personal Effects

Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo
The 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.

A lucid view of one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Louise DeSalvo.
Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of memoir writing, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives. More than an anthology, Personal Effects represents an author case study and an example for modern Italian American interdisciplinary scholarship.
Personal Effects examines DeSalvo's memoirs as works that push the boundaries of the most controversial genre of the past few decades. In these works, the author fearlessly explores issues such as immigration, domesticity, war, adultery, illness, mental health, sexuality, the environment, and trauma through the lens of gender, ethnic, and working-class identity. Alongside her groundbreaking scholarship, DeSalvo's memoirs attest to the power and influence of this feminist Italian American writer.

Contributor: Nancy Caronia (Edited by), Edvige Giunta (Edited by), Emily Bernard (Contributions by), Mary-Jo Bona (Contributions by), Jenn Brandt (Contributions by), Amy Jo Burns (Contributions by), Kimberly A. Costino (Contributions by), Peter Covino (Contributions by), Jeana Del Rosso (Contributions by), Jennifer-Ann Di Gregori-Kightlinger (Contributions by), Joshua Fausty (Contributions by), Margaux Fragoso (Contributions by), John Gennari (Contributions by), Benjamin D. Hagen (Contributions by), Mark Hussey (Contributions by), Lia Ottaviano (Contributions by), Theodora Patrona (Contributions by), Kym Ragusa (Contributions by), Ilaria Serra (Contributions by), Julija Sukys (Contributions by), Anthony Julian Tamburri (Contributions by)

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