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The dream book : an anthology of writings by Italian American women / edited with an introduction by Helen Barolini.

Contributor(s): Series: Writing American womenPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2000.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xv, 399 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0815606621 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.8/09287/08951 21
LOC classification:
  • PS508.I73 D7 2000
Contents:
Introduction : The historical and social context of silence, Seeds of doubt: the internal blocks, Literary hegemonies and oversights: the external blocks, Affirmations. --
Memoirs : (from) At the end of the Santa Fe Trail / Sister Blandina Segale -- (from) Rosa: the life of an Italian immigrant / Rosa Cassettari -- South Brooklyn, 1947 / Fran Claro -- (biographical introduction to a scene from ..., and from) A monster has stolen the sun / Karen Malpede -- (from) A portrait of the Puttana as a middle-aged Woolf scholar / Louise A. DeSalvo -- Angelina / Gigi Marino -- Zi'Marietta / Mary Gordon. --
Nonfiction : (from) Poor splendid wings / Frances Winwar -- Godfather II: of Families and families / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -- Definitions of womanhood: class, acculturation, and feminism / Carol Bonomo Albright -- Turtle out of Calabria / Helen Barolini -- Italian traveling / Gioia Timpanelli. --
Fiction : (from) Like lesser gods / Mari Tomasi -- (from) Who can buy the stars? / Antonia Pola -- The Sunday Papa missed Mass / Rosa Grieco -- (from) No steadyjob for Papa / Marion Benasutti -- (from) A bridge of leaves / Diana Cavallo -- The rocks / Octavia Locke -- La ciramella / Mary K. Mazotti -- Zio / Alma R. Vanek -- (from) The weak and the strong / Julia Savarese -- (from) Miss Giardino / Dorothy Bryant -- I learn three new words / Tia G. Talamini -- Window seat / Lynette Asian -- Roman ruins / Anna Monardo -- (from a novel in progress) / Rose Carmellino -- (from) Paper fish / Tina DeRosa -- (from) Lesser sins / Nancy Maniscalco. --
Drama : Pizza / Michele Linfante. -- Poetry : Poetry / Severina Magni -- Goodbyes and hellos ; Dandelions / Pace Nicolino -- Italian bread / Kathy Freeperson -- Fan letter ; Song and dance lady ; You were always Irish, god / Elaine Romaine -- In defense of Plath, Berryman, Sexton ; Last supper ; The eye is single / Grace DiSanto -- Party overlooking the narrows ; To my fat friends ; Acuto ; Back in the old country / Anne Paolucci -- Getting my jazz down ; At my breast ; Camping out / Phyllis Capello -- O walt, I had no idea ; The funeral parlor's in Brooklyn / Rita Valentino -- Petals of silence ; Public School No. 18: Paterson, New Jersey / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Blues after 35 [cent] beers in St. Louis ; Night after night light after light / Elizabeth Marraffino-Rees -- Home movies ; Morning walks / Linda Monacelli-Johnson -- Ravioli ; Preserving ; c.1896 ; Giovanni 1854-1940 / Anna Bart -- Millinocket, Maine ; Gray waters and geraniums / Maria Iannacome Coles -- Fictions ; On the Outer Banks ; A Georgia O'Keeffee bloom / Rina Ferrarelli --
Patience in the endless rain ; Hens ; The ninth life ; The flashlight / Jacquelyn Bonomo -- Second class citizen / Jennifer Lagier -- Body wisdom ; Naturally, mother / Janine Veto -- Aftertaste ; This small universe ; rope / Theresa Vinciguerra -- El Sueno ; Maria Dominica Lazzari, "L'Addolorata," a miller's daughter, who received the stigmata in 1835 ; Empty factory, N.J. / Kathryn Nocerino -- Mafioso ; Doing laundry ; The grandmother dream ; The Thoreau pencil ; The summer kitchen / Sandra M. Gilbert -- In sequence / Leslie Scalapino -- Memorare/8 ; Scirocco/12 ; Vision in the grove/6 / Jean Feraca -- Lullaby ; Marriage ; Letter to Jeanne (at Tassajara) ; To my father ; Prayer to the mothers ; Backyard ; April Fool birthday poem for grandpa ; Minnesota morning ode / Diane di Prima -- This is the way we wash our hands / Ree Dragonette -- (from) American sonnets for my father ; Bicentennial anti-poem for Italian-American women ; My Venus fly trap is dying ; Peace prospect / Daniela Gioseffi -- Table manners of an only child / Lorraine DeGennaro -- Ragazza ; The winemaker / Maryfrances Wagner.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS508 .I73 D7 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000642628

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : The historical and social context of silence, Seeds of doubt: the internal blocks, Literary hegemonies and oversights: the external blocks, Affirmations. --

Memoirs : (from) At the end of the Santa Fe Trail / Sister Blandina Segale -- (from) Rosa: the life of an Italian immigrant / Rosa Cassettari -- South Brooklyn, 1947 / Fran Claro -- (biographical introduction to a scene from ..., and from) A monster has stolen the sun / Karen Malpede -- (from) A portrait of the Puttana as a middle-aged Woolf scholar / Louise A. DeSalvo -- Angelina / Gigi Marino -- Zi'Marietta / Mary Gordon. --

Nonfiction : (from) Poor splendid wings / Frances Winwar -- Godfather II: of Families and families / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -- Definitions of womanhood: class, acculturation, and feminism / Carol Bonomo Albright -- Turtle out of Calabria / Helen Barolini -- Italian traveling / Gioia Timpanelli. --

Fiction : (from) Like lesser gods / Mari Tomasi -- (from) Who can buy the stars? / Antonia Pola -- The Sunday Papa missed Mass / Rosa Grieco -- (from) No steadyjob for Papa / Marion Benasutti -- (from) A bridge of leaves / Diana Cavallo -- The rocks / Octavia Locke -- La ciramella / Mary K. Mazotti -- Zio / Alma R. Vanek -- (from) The weak and the strong / Julia Savarese -- (from) Miss Giardino / Dorothy Bryant -- I learn three new words / Tia G. Talamini -- Window seat / Lynette Asian -- Roman ruins / Anna Monardo -- (from a novel in progress) / Rose Carmellino -- (from) Paper fish / Tina DeRosa -- (from) Lesser sins / Nancy Maniscalco. --

Drama : Pizza / Michele Linfante. -- Poetry : Poetry / Severina Magni -- Goodbyes and hellos ; Dandelions / Pace Nicolino -- Italian bread / Kathy Freeperson -- Fan letter ; Song and dance lady ; You were always Irish, god / Elaine Romaine -- In defense of Plath, Berryman, Sexton ; Last supper ; The eye is single / Grace DiSanto -- Party overlooking the narrows ; To my fat friends ; Acuto ; Back in the old country / Anne Paolucci -- Getting my jazz down ; At my breast ; Camping out / Phyllis Capello -- O walt, I had no idea ; The funeral parlor's in Brooklyn / Rita Valentino -- Petals of silence ; Public School No. 18: Paterson, New Jersey / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Blues after 35 [cent] beers in St. Louis ; Night after night light after light / Elizabeth Marraffino-Rees -- Home movies ; Morning walks / Linda Monacelli-Johnson -- Ravioli ; Preserving ; c.1896 ; Giovanni 1854-1940 / Anna Bart -- Millinocket, Maine ; Gray waters and geraniums / Maria Iannacome Coles -- Fictions ; On the Outer Banks ; A Georgia O'Keeffee bloom / Rina Ferrarelli --

Patience in the endless rain ; Hens ; The ninth life ; The flashlight / Jacquelyn Bonomo -- Second class citizen / Jennifer Lagier -- Body wisdom ; Naturally, mother / Janine Veto -- Aftertaste ; This small universe ; rope / Theresa Vinciguerra -- El Sueno ; Maria Dominica Lazzari, "L'Addolorata," a miller's daughter, who received the stigmata in 1835 ; Empty factory, N.J. / Kathryn Nocerino -- Mafioso ; Doing laundry ; The grandmother dream ; The Thoreau pencil ; The summer kitchen / Sandra M. Gilbert -- In sequence / Leslie Scalapino -- Memorare/8 ; Scirocco/12 ; Vision in the grove/6 / Jean Feraca -- Lullaby ; Marriage ; Letter to Jeanne (at Tassajara) ; To my father ; Prayer to the mothers ; Backyard ; April Fool birthday poem for grandpa ; Minnesota morning ode / Diane di Prima -- This is the way we wash our hands / Ree Dragonette -- (from) American sonnets for my father ; Bicentennial anti-poem for Italian-American women ; My Venus fly trap is dying ; Peace prospect / Daniela Gioseffi -- Table manners of an only child / Lorraine DeGennaro -- Ragazza ; The winemaker / Maryfrances Wagner.

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