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The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture

The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture

Guinta, Edvige
DeSalvo, Louise

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Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1558614532
ISBN13: 9781558614536
Publisher: Feminist Press
Published: Oct 1 2003
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.09
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
A vast, thoroughly wonderful assortment of poetry, memoirs and stories . . . that defines today's female Italian-American experience (Publishers Weekly).

Often stereotyped as nurturing others through food, Italian-American women have often struggled against this simplistic image to express the realities of their lives.

In this unique collection, over 50 Italian-American female writers speak in voices that are loud, boisterous, sweet, savvy, and often subversively funny. Drawing on personal and cultural memories rooted in experiences of food, they dissolve conventional images, replacing them with a sumptuous, communal feast of poetry, stories, and memoir.

This collection also delves into unexpected, sometimes shocking terrain as these courageous authors bear witness to aspects of the Italian American experience that normally go unspoken-mental illness, family violence, incest, drug addiction, AIDS, and environmental degradation.

As provocative as it is appetizing, this collection of verse and prose pieces . . . reveals the evocative and provocative power of food as event and as symbol, as well as the diversity of these women's lives and their ambivalence regarding the role of nurturer (Library Journal).

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