The Voices We Carry: Recent Italian/American Women's Fiction.

From: The Women's Review of Books | Date: July 1, 1994| Author: Signorelli-Pappas, Rita | Copyright information

I RECOGNIZED FEW NAMES as I read down this book's table of contents, but that is not surprising: Italian American women authors were until recently an almost invisible presence in our literature. Why has it taken so long for their words to reach the printed page? According to Mary Jo Bona's introduction to this anthology, their prolonged silence was in part a result of the conflict that the daughters and granddaughters of immigrants experienced when they were given educations but tol...

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