Voices in Italian Americana

a literary and cultural review


Volume 7         Fall 1996        Number 2


Table of Contents

 

Critical Essays

    Mary Jo Bona

        Mater Dolorosa  No More? Mothers and Writers
        in the Italian/American Literary Tradition

    Flavia Rando

“My Mother Was a Strong Woman”: Respect,
Shame, and the Feminine Body in the Sculpture of
Nancy Azara and Antonette Rosato

    Mary Frances Pipino

        Ella Price’s Journal:
       
The Subv/mersion of Ethnic and Sexual Identity

    Aaron Baker and Juliann Vitullo

        Mysticism and the Household Saints of Everyday Life

    Ellen Nerenberg

        Overlooking and Looking Over Ida Lupino

    Blossom Kirschenbaum

        Fernanda Pivano: Italian Americanista, Reluctant Feminist

    Maria Rosa Cutrufelli

        In the Kingdom of Persephone

 

Memoir

    Louise DeSalvo

        Combat Zones

    Mary Cappello

        My Mother Writes the Letter That I Dream

    Joanna Clapps Herman

        Looking Ahead

    Geraldine DeLuca

        Song for Two Guitars

    Marianna De Marco Torgovnick

        Crossing Ocean Parkway:
        Memoir as Cultural Contact Zone

 

Interview

    Luciana Polney

        An Interview with Jo Ann Tedesco

 

Fiction

    Rita Ciresi

         Nazi Dog

    Renée Manfredi

        Running Away with Frannie

 

Poetry

    Sandra M. Gilbert

 

    Rose Romano

 

    Kathy Freeperson

 

    Jennifer Lagier

 

    Phyllis Capello

 

    Maria Mazziotti Gillan

 

    Kathleen Ossip

 

    Daniela Gioseffi

 

    Tina De Rosa

 

 

Italian Writing in North America

    Corrada Biazzo Curry

 

 

Review Essays

    Louise DeSalvo

        Paper Fish by Tina De Rosa: An Appreciation

    Graziella Parati

        The Impossible Return: Women, Violence, and Exile

    Armando Maggi

        Exposing One’s Body: A Response to FUORI. Essays by  

        Italian/American Lesbians and Gays

 

Reviews

    Louise DeSalvo. Vertigo: A Memoir. (Susan J. Leonardi)

    Louise DeSalvo. Vertigo: A Memoir. (Fred L. Gardaphè)       

    Jeanne Schinto. Huddle Fever Living in the Immigrant City.
        (Dawn Esposito)

    Carole Maso. The American Woman in the Chinese Hat.
        A
Novel. (Joshua Fausty)

    Cris Mazza. Your Name Here: ______. (Ted Pelton)

    Christine Palamidessi Moore. The Virgin Knows.
        (Carla Cappetti)

    Mary Russo-Demetrick. First Pressing. Mary Russo-Demetrick
        and Maria Famà. Italian Notebook. Vittoria repetto. Head
        for
the Van Wyck. (Carol Lazzaro-Weis)

    Maria Mazziotti Gillan. Where I Come From: Selected and New
        Poems.
(Mary Jo Bona)

    Sandra M. Gilbert. Wrongful Death: A Medical Tragedy;
        and Ghost Volcano: Poems. (Annette Wheeler Cafarelli) 

    Theresa Carilli. Women as Lovers (Two Plays).
        (Kathy Ryder)

    Giovanna Miceli Jeffries, ed. Feminine Feminists: Cultural
         Practices
in Italy. Graziella Parati. Public History, Private
        Stories:
Italian Women’s Autobiography. (Rebecca West)

    Maxine Schwartz Seller, ed. Immigrant Women. (Fawzia
        Afzal-Khan)