Italian Americans on the Page

<p><b>Approaches Italian American literature from new critical perspectives and explores contemporary and understudied voices from both the United States and Canada.</b></p><p><i>Italian Americans on the Page</i> fills a significant gap in Italian American and Italian diaspora studies particularly literature as it explores four genres-fiction poetry memoir and theater-from a variety of critical perspectives. The first section of the book offers reconsiderations of two canonical authors Helen Barolini and Don DeLillo while the other three sections bring new attention to understudied Italian American and Italian Canadian writers including women and LGBTQIA+. These include Mary Jo Salter Peter Covino Louise DeSalvo Karen Tintori Juliet Grames Ben Piazza Salvatore Antonio Christopher DiRaddo Michele Linfante Chris Cinque Theresa Carilli Mary Melfi and Michaela Di Cesare. Each contribution approaches Italian American and Italian diaspora studies through a unique theoretical lens adding to the richness of what proceeds this publication in the field. Ultimately the volume offers rereadings of foundational Italian American works and provides newfound attention to understudied and emerging Italian diasporic voices.</p>