Personal effects [electronic resource] : essays on memoir, teaching, and culture in the work of Louise DeSalvo / edited by Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: -- Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta, "Habit of Mind" -- I -- Memoir -- Margaux Fragoso, "Louise DeSalvo's 'Even in Death, La Bella Figura': A Meditation on Honor, Respect, and the Silences that Bind" -- Peter Covino, "The Poetics of Trauma: Intertextuality, Rhythm, and Concision in Vertigo and Writing as a Way of Healing" -- Jeana DelRosso, "Fixing and Fictioning: Memory and Catholicism in Vertigo" -- Julija Sukys, "Portrait of the Mother as Writer and Researcher" -- Joshua Fausty, "Louise DeSalvo: Essaying Memoir" -- II -- Teaching -- Kym Ragusa, "On Vulnerability and Risk: Learning to Write and Teach Memoir as a Student of Louise DeSalvo" -- Emiy Bernard, "Fixing Things: What Louise DeSalvo Has Taught Me about Writing" -- Kimberly A. Costino, "Dark Whiteness and Literacy without Assimilation: DeSalvo's Unlikely Narrative" -- Lia Ottaviano, "Mixing Bowl: On Crazy in the Kitchen, DeSalvo in the Classroom, and the Day I Got Into Hunter" -- Benjamin D. Hagen, "Furthering the Voyage: Reconsidering DeSalvo in Contemporary Woolf Studies" -- III -- Culture -- Mark Hussey, "The Contexts of Louise DeSalvo's Impact: Incest in Virginia Woolf's Biography" -- Jenn Brandt, "'Thirty-seven is the Unraveling Time' and Other Fictions of Fidelity in the Works of Louise DeSalvo"' -- A.J. Kandathil, "Life Online: Skating and Breaking the Surface of the Self" -- Mary Jo Bona and Jennifer-Ann DiGregorio Kightlinger, "The Fruits of Her Labor: DeSalvo's Memoirs of Food and Family" -- Theodora Patrona, "Mapping the Female Ethnic Self in the Family Battleground: Vertigo and the Greek American Novel" -- Ilaria Serra, "DeSalvo's Rialto: On Moving as a Livable Bridge" -- John Gennari, "The Knife and the Bread, the Brutal and the Sacred: Louise DeSalvo at the Family Table" -- Afterword -- Anthony Julian Tamburri, "Crazy in the Study: Trying to Claim a Tradition in Louise DeSalvo's -- Accented Writing" -- Notes on ContributorsIndex.

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