Behind Closed Doors ─ Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily

ISBN13：9781558615533
出版社：Feminist Pr
作者：Maria Messina; Elise Magistro (TRN); Fred Gardaphe (CON)
出版日：2007/07/01
裝訂／頁數：精裝／196頁
規格：18.4cm*13.3cm*1.9cm (高/寬/厚)
關鍵字： Behind Closed Doors ─ Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily、 Behind、 Closed、 Doors、 Her、 Father、 House、 and、 Other、 Stories、 of、 Sicily、 Feminist Pr、 Maria Messina、 Elise Magistro (TRN)、 Fred Gardaphe (CON)、外文書、 Italian fiction、

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With an ear for dialogue that may be compared to Tillie Olsen, Grace Paley, and Ernest Hemingway, Sicilian writer Maria Messina presents the captivating and brutal realities of women living in early-twentieth-century Italy in this first collection of her work available in English.

Behind Closed Doors portrays the habits and gestures, the words spoken and those left unsaid, of individuals caught between the traditions they respect and a desire to ease the social restrictions in their lives. Messina’s stories reveal a world in which women are shuttered in their houses, virtual servants to their families, and working men immigrate to the United States in fortune-seeking droves. It is also a world of unstated privileges in which habits and implied commands perpetuate women’s servitude.

A cultural album that captures the lives of peasant, working-class, and middle-class women, this volume will appeal to millions of Italian descendants and readers everywhere fascinated by Italian history.

Maria Messina (1887–1944) wrote short stories, children’s tales, and novels about her native Sicily until she died of multiple sclerosis. In recent years, her work has been rediscovered in Italy, where she has been compared to Luigi Pirandello and Giovanni Verga.

Fred Gardaphe is the director of Italian American Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the president of MELUS (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US).

Elise Magistro holds a doctorate in Italian from UCLA and is a lecturer in Italian at Scripps College in Claremont, California.

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Maria Messina (1887-1944) was born in Palermo, Sicily. Messina taught herself to read and write, and eventually began a correspondence with Italian realist Giovanni Verga. She wrote novels, short stories, and children's tales, and later won the Medal of Gold for her story "America". During the 1920s, Messina was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, which she died of. Elise Magistro holds a Doctorate in Italian from U.C.L.A. She has written and lectured on Italian women writers, the Sicilian literary tradition and the Italian American emigrant experience between 1880 and 1920. Her publications include critical essays on Sicilian writer Maria Messina and Sardinian Nobel Prize author, Grazia Deledda. Professor Magistro currently teaches at Scripps College. Gardaphe is now at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College. He is Associate Editor of Fra Noi, editor of the Series in Italian American Studies at SUNY Press, and co-founding co-editor of Voices in Italian Americana. He is current President of MELUS and author of Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian Narrative. Elise Magistro holds a Doctorate in Italian from U.C.L.A. She has written and lectured on Italian women writers, the Sicilian literary tradition and the Italian American emigrant experience between 1880 and 1920. Her publications include critical essays on Sicilian writer Maria Messina and Sardinian Nobel Prize author, Grazia Deledda. Professor Magistro currently teaches at Scripps College.

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