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Chiaroscuro Essays of Identity Revised Edition Helen Barolini "Needs to be on the shelves of every American Library and in the minds of every Italian American."—Fred L. Gardaphé, Italian America "A lively, lucid, and often extremely moving collection of essays."—Sandra Gilbert, author of Wrongful Death: A Memoir "Barolini's essays moved me. Their commitment, their passion, their intelligence struck me very powerfully and made them among the most incisive essays on Italian-Americana, ethnicity, and diversity in literature that I have ever read."—Fred Misurella, author of Understanding Miles Kundera: Public Events, Private Affairs and Short Time Part memoir, part social commentary, and part literary criticism, Chiaroscuro is not only profoundly original but also of crucial importance in establishing the contours of an Italian-American tradition. Spanning a quarter century of work, the essays in Helen Barolini's essays explore her personal search; literature as a formative influence; and the turning of the personal into the political. Included in Chiaroscuro is an updated re-introduction to Barolini's American Book Award-winning collection, The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian-American Women. Helen Barolini is author of Umbertina and five other books. From the present collection, her essay "How I Learned to Speak Italian" was selected for The Best American Essays 1998. For more information regarding publicity and reviews contact our publicity manager, Chris Caldwell, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

February 1999 240 pp. 6 x 9 ISBN-10: 0-299-16084-X ISBN-13: 978-0-299-16084-5 Paper $24.95 t Add titles to your shopping cart by clicking on the "Add this book to cart" link above. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with your credit card. Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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