FOOD AND EMOTIONS IN ITALIAN WOMEN'S WRITING
Author | : PATRIZIA. SAMBUCO |
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Release | : 2024 |
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ISBN | : 9781487506834 |
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Author | : PATRIZIA. SAMBUCO |
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Release | : 2024 |
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ISBN | : 9781487506834 |
Author | : Claudia Bernardi |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-11-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1350137790 |
This book explores how women's relationship with food has been represented in Italian literature, cinema, scientific writings and other forms of cultural expression from the 19th century to the present. Italian women have often been portrayed cooking and serving meals to others, while denying themselves the pleasure of the table. The collection presents a comprehensive understanding of the symbolic meanings associated with food and of the way these intersect with Italian women's socio-cultural history and the feminist movement. From case studies on Sophia Loren and Elena Ferrante, to analyses of cookbooks by Italian chefs, each chapter examines the unique contribution Italian culture has made to perceiving and portraying women in a specific relation to food, addressing issues of gender, identity and politics of the body.
Author | : Louise A. DeSalvo |
Publisher | : Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2003-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781558614536 |
Often sentimentalized as nurturing through food, Italian American women have continually struggled against this stereotype to speak of the realities of their lives. In The Milk of Almonds, more than 50 writers speak in voices that are loud, boisterous, sweet, savvy, and often subversively comical. Drawing on personal and cultural memory rooted in experiences of food, here Italian American women dissolve conventional images, replacing them with a sumptuous, communal feast of poetry, stories, and memoir. Though they begin with food, the writers in this collection quickly carry the reader into unexpected terrain as they bear witness to experiences often considered unspeakable. A deeply satisfying literary banquet, The Milk of Almonds is an unprecedented collection, amply revising all received notions of what it means to be an Italian American woman. Book jacket.
Author | : Andrea L. Dottolo |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2018-03-02 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 3319747576 |
This book is about Italian American women, food, identity, and our stories at the table. This mother-daughter research team explores how Italian American working-class women from Syracuse, New York use food as a symbol and vehicle which carries multiple meanings. In these narratives, food represents home, loss, and longing. Food also stands in for race, class, gender, sexuality, immigration, region, place, and space. The authors highlight how food is about family and tradition, as well as choice and change. These women's narratives reveal that food is related to celebration, love, power, and shame. As this study centers on the intergenerational transmission of culture, the authors' relationship mirrors these questions as they contend with their similar and disparate experiences and relationships with Italian American identity and food. The authors use the "recipe" as a conversational bridge to elicit narratives about identity and the self. They also encourage readers to listen closely to the stories at their own tables to consider how recipes and food are a way for us to claim who we are, who we think we are, who we want to be, and who we are not.
Author | : Katharine Mitchell |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442646411 |
Italian Women Writers looks at the work of three of the most significant women in late nineteenth century Italy whose domestic fiction and journalism addressed a growing female readership.
Author | : Teresa Capetola |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2022-03-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780645405903 |
This book is an anthology of short stories, poems, artwork and photos relating to food production, preparation and consumption by multi generation Italian and Italian Australian women. The contributions have been generated through bi-weekly meetings, using writing prompts and art workshops, via zoom, with the Ascolta Women collective across Australia. The book explores Italian and Italian Australian identities through reflections, memories and reflexive practices on food, its cultivation, preparation and consumption. The book purposefully does not recreate narrow and stereotypical representations of Italian identity through food tropes associated with, for example, pasta and sauce. Instead the writers problematise gendered and ethnic expectations of the role of women in Italian and migrant cultures in Australia. This is variously achieved through critiquing the role of food cultivation, preparation and consumption; use of food and its accoutrements as metaphors and symbols to challenge gendered, class and ethnic stereotypes; as well as exploring and honouring the inextricable connection between food, belonging and longing in Italian and Italian Australian migrant cultures.
Author | : Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2023-06-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192887505 |
On July 25, 1943, news of Mussolini's resignation and subsequent arrest stunned Italians leaving them dumbfounded. After two decades, fascism had fallen without any advance warning. As festive events marked the incredible outcome and reminders of the past were destroyed, an uncontainable joy seemed to pervade Italians. But what did people actually celebrate? How did they understand the bygone dictatorship, which was soon to be reincarnated in the Italian Social Republic (RSI)? Drawing on more than one hundred diaries written by ordinary citizens (and some prominent figures as well) and inspired by Raymond Williams's concept of structures of feeling, the book examines Italians' perspectives on fascism at a very critical moment in their history. With the country mired in a devastating war further complicated by the September 8, 1943 armistice with the Allies and subsequent German occupation--followed by the eruption of an Italian-against-Italian conflict, the switching of alliances, and the declaration of war against Germany on October 13, 1943--the fast pace of history seemed to deflect Italians' attention from their immediate past. Amidst the daily experience of bombings, hunger, displacement, and death, coming to terms with twenty years of dictatorship turned out to be an arduous enterprise. Whether those who had lived under the fascist regime wished 'not to think of it and not to speak any more about it' as philosopher Benedetto Croce maintained, it is hard to ascertain. In truth, little is known of what Italians felt and thought about fascism after its precipitous demise. This book remedies the gap in historical scholarship by assessing how Italians confronted their present and negotiated their past during the two years from the fall of the regime to the definitive defeat of the RSI and the end of the world war in May 1945. By bringing to life the cultural imaginaries and practices of the past, the book raises ostensibly intractable questions on the epochal impact of what often appears as inconsequential: the typically unseen and seemingly banal power of everyday experiences.
Author | : Elizabeth A. Dolan |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780754654919 |
As she explores tropes of illness, healing, and social justice in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Shelley, Dolan engages with a wide range of primary sources in science and medicine. She argues that the Romantic-era interest in the physiology of vision influenced the culture's understanding of suffering, and that these three authors experimented with materialist modes of seeing in order to expand the language of suffering and to claim literary authority.
Author | : Robin Healey |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780802008008 |
This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.
Author | : Pellegrino A D'Acierno |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2021-12-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000525554 |
First published in 1999. The many available scholarly works on Italian-Americans are perhaps of little practical help to the undergraduate or high school student who needs background information when reading contemporary fiction with Italian characters, watching films that require a familiarity with Italian Americans, or looking at works of art that can be fully appreciated only if one understands Italian culture. This basic reference work for non-specialists and students offers quick insights and essential, easy-to-grasp information on Italian-American contributions to American art, music, literature, motion pictures and cultural life. This rich legacy is examined in a collection of original essays that include portrayals of Italian characters in the films of Francis Coppola, Italian American poetry, the art of Frank Stella, the music of Frank Zappa, a survey of Italian folk customs and an analysis of the evolution of Italian-American biography. Comprising 22 lengthy essays written specifically for this volume, the book identifies what is uniquely Italian in American life and examines how Italian customs, traditions, social mores and cultural antecedents have wrought their influence on the American character. Filled with insights, observations and ethnic facts and fictions, this volume should prove to be a valuable source of information for scholars, researchers and students interested in pinpointing and examining the cultural, intellectual and social influence of Italian immigrants and their successors.