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The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture Kindle Edition
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).
- ISBN-13978-1558614536
- PublisherThe Feminist Press at CUNY
- Publication dateMarch 15, 2017
- LanguageEnglish
- File size2500 KB
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“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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- ASIN : B0711STG1M
- Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY (March 15, 2017)
- Publication date : March 15, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 2500 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 360 pages
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Pomegranates, broccoli-rabe, aperitivo, bread, milk, artichokes, finocchio, pomodori, cake, lettuce, ravioli, figs, apricots, laughter and tears.... fill these 330 pages.
These poems and stories offer the reader a community of womens' experience and will raise your nostalgia and catalyze your memories of ancestors, as well as show you glimpses of lives you haven't experienced -- modern lives of all ilks.
Keep this book near your easy chair. Pick it up, open it and read. Take years to read this collection. Learn what the Italian woman did in America when the bus driver wouldn't let her get on the bus with the live chicken from the market...
great present for foodies of all cultures, and lovers of food stories
forever,
Annie
Annie Lanzillotto
author of "L is for Lion: an italian bronx butch freedom memoir" SUNY Press
and "Schistsong" BORDIGHERA Press
www.annielanzillotto.com
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