Embroidered Stories - Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora

Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to help define who they were and who they have become. This book is an interdisciplinary collection of creative work by authors of Italian origin and academic essays.

About the author

Edvige Giunta is professor of English at New Jersey City University. She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and coeditor of Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, Italian American Writers on New Jersey: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, and The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture. Joseph Sciorra is associate director for academic and cultural programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College. He is editor of the journal Italian American Review and the book Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives.

Product details

• Authors: Edvige (EDT)/ Sciorra Giunta
• Assisted by: Edvige Giunta (Editor), Joseph Sciorra (Editor)
• Publisher: University press of mississipp
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781496804594
• ISBN: 978-1-4968-0459-4
• No. of pages: 394
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories