Persephone goes home: Italian American women in Italy. From: MELUS | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: Goeller, Alison D. | COPYRIGHT 2003 The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnics Literature of the United States. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Despite the fact that the largest migration of Italians to the US occurred well over eighty years ago--8.5 million by WW I--only in the past fifteen or twenty years have Italian American women found the courage and encouragement in significant numbers to give voice to their hyphenated American experiences. This late-blooming has to do, in part, with the complex acculturation process that Italian Americans, male and female, have undergone over the past century. Scholars such as Carol...

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