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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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  1. By the Breath of Their Mouths
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  1. By the Breath of Their Mouths
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  1. Contents
  2. p. vii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-xi
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-10
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  1. 1: Justice/Giustizia Private Justice and the Folkloric Community in the World of Italian Americans
  2. pp. 11-38
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  1. 2: Faith/Fede Plenty to Confess Women and (Italian) American Catholicism
  2. pp. 39-72
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  1. 3: Story/Racconto Una chiacchierata nel passato Rosa and Marie of Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant
  2. pp. 73-94
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  1. 4: Land/Terra Village People in Guido D’Agostino’s Novels with Joanne Ruvoli
  2. pp. 95-118
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  1. 5: History Singer/Cantastorie Vernacular Voices in Paule Marshall’s and Tina De Rosa’s Kunstlerromane
  2. pp. 119-140
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  1. 6: Precursor/Precursore Mother’s Tongue Italian American Daughters and Female Precursors
  2. pp. 141-174
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  1. 7: Death/Morte What They Talk About When They Talk About Death
  2. pp. 175-209
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  1. 8: Revival/Risorgimento Stories Continue Shaping U.S. Italian American Writing
  2. pp. 211-234
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 235-266
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 267-286
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 287-302
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