In this Book
- By the Breath of Their Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Italian/American Culture
summary
Examines the liberating power of speech and its influence on generations of Italian American writers. In By the Breath of Their Mouths, Mary Jo Bona examines the oral uses of language and the liberating power of speech in Italian American writing, as well as its influences on generations of assimilated Italian American writers. Probing and wide-ranging, Bona’s analysis reveals the lasting importance of storytelling and folk narrative, their impact on ethnic, working-class, and women’s literatures, and their shaping importance in multiethnic literature. Drawing on a wide range of material from several genres, including oral biographies, fiction, film, poetry, and memoir, and grounded in recent theories of narrative and autobiography, postcolonial theory, and critical multiculturalism, By the Breath of Their Mouths is must reading for students in Italian American studies in particular and ethnic studies and multiethnic literature more generally.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9781438429977
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
560612707
Pages
314
Launched on MUSE
2011-07-21
Language
English
Open Access
No