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(2002)
The milk of almonds
Italian American women writers on food and culture
1st ed.
by Cristina Rivera Garza
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"On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host's gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication"--
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Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Identity (Psychology), Women, American literature, italian american authors, American literature, women authors, American literature, Italian American authors, Italian American women, Literary collections, Italian Americans, Women authors, Gastronomy, Civilization, Food, Italienerin, Literatur, Speise, Anthologie, Masculinity, FICTION / Romance / Gothic, FICTION / Contemporary Women, FICTION / Literary| Edition | Availability |
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The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture
August 2002, Feminist Press
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in English
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The milk of almonds: Italian American women writers on food and culture
2002, Feminist Press at the City University of New York
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The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture
July 2002, Feminist Press
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments, xi
Editors' Note, xii
LOUISE DESALVO AND EDVIGE GIUNTA Introduction, 1
Part One: BEGINNINGS
CAROLE MASO Rose and Pink and Round, 17
MARY BUCCI BUSH Aperitivo, 22
DOROTHY BARRESI Mother Hunger and Her Seatbelt, 24
KIM ADDONIZIO Beer. Milk. The Dog. My Old Man. 27
CRIS MAZZA Our Father, 28
RACHEL GUIDO DEVRIES Italian Grocer, 37
MARY SARACINO Smoke and Fire, 38
KIM ADDONIZIO Outside, 44
DONNA MASINI Sacred Hearts and Tar, 45
Part Two: CEREMONIES
CAMILLA TRINCHIERI Kitchen Coanmunion, 49
DOROTHY BRYANT Dizzy Spells, 56
JANET ZANDY My Children's Names, 64
MARY RUsso DEMETRICK Jazzman, 65
KIM ADDONIZIO Bedtime Story, 65
MARY BETH CASCHETTA The Seven Sacraments, 67
SANDRA M. GILBERT Kissing the Bread, 76
LUCIA PERILLO Pomegranate, 78
MARY ANN MANNINO The Anthology Poems, 81
DOROTHY BARRESI The Prodigal Daughter, 82
EDVIGE GIUNTA The Giara off Memory, 84
Part Three: AWAKENINGS
NANCY CARONIA Go to Hell, 95
MARY Jo BONA Motherlove, 101
ROSETTE CAPOTORTO We Begin with Food, 102
Breakfast in My Seventeenth Year, 104
CHERYL BURKE Bone, Veins, and Fat, 105
RITA CIRESI Big Heart, 112
DANIELA GIOSEFFI The Origins of Milk, 121
LORYN LIPARI Cracked, 123
ROSETTE CAPOTORTO Broke, 130
Part Four: ENCOUNTERS
PAMELA E. BARNETT Other People's Food, 135
DIANE DI PRIMA What I Ate Where, 143
ROSETTE CAPOTORTO The Stereotype, 148
REGINA BARRECA My Grandmother, a Chicken, and
Death, 148
SANDRA M. GILBERT "No Thank You, I Don't Care for
Artichokes," 150
RINA FERRARELLI Hot Peppers, 152
ROSETTE CAPOTORTO If You Were a Boy, 152
GIOIA TIMPANELLI Tridicinu and 'Mmaculata, 153
VITTORIA REPETTO she's doing the dishes, 158
pasta poem. 159
AGNES Rossi Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner, 160
Part Five: TRANSFORIMATIONS
ANNE MARIE MACARI I Can Be Bread, 167
SANDRA M. GILBERT Finocchio, 168
ADELE REGINA LA BARRE Pomodori, 170
VrrroRIA REPETTO lovers and other dead animals, 175
LUCIA PERILLO Tripe, 175
ANNE CALCAGNO Let Them Eat Cake, 176
ANNE MARIE MACARI Parable, 182
SUSANNE ANTONETTA Rosette, 182
SANDRA M. GILBERT Basil, 189
FLAVA ALAYA Love Lettuce, 190
ANNE MARIE MACARI The Room, 198
DONNA MASINI Hunger, 200
Part Six: COM1MUNITIES
ROSETTE CAPOTORTO Dealing with Broccoli Rabe, 205
ADRIA BERNARDI Sunday, 205
ROSETTE CAPOTORTO The Oven, 214
NANCY SAVOCA Ravioli, Artichokes, and Figs, 216
MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Seventeenth Street: Paterson,
New Jersey, 222
Passing It On, 222
You Were Always Escaping, 223
DOROTHY BARRESI Poem, 225
JOANNA CLAPPS HERMAN Coffee an, 227
PHYLLIS CAPELLO Jeanie, 235
Working Men, 236
DONNA MASINI Moving In and Moving Up, 237
MARY CAPPELLO Fatso, 239
Part Seven: PASSINGS
SUSANNE ANTONETTA The Lives of the Saints, 249
DORIAN CIRRONE After We Bury Her, 252
MARIA MAZZIOTT GILLAN Ma, Who Told Me You Forgot
How to Cry, 252
SUZANNE BRANCIFORTE The Day Anna Stopped Making
A-Beetz, 254
JANET ZANDY My Mother's Career at Skip's
Luncheonette, 258
Secret Gardens, 259
ALANE SALIERNO MASON The Exegesis of Eating, 261
DOROTHY BARRESI The Vinegarroon, 269
ANNIE LANZILLOTTO Triple Bypass, 273
JENNIFER LAGIER Last Supper, 274
DORIAN CIRRONE New Year's Eve, 275
KYM RAGUSA Baked Ziti, 276
Part Eight LEGACIES
MARIA TERRONE What They'll Say in a Thousand
Years, 285
DENISE CALVETTI MICHAELS Polenta, 295
LUCIA PERILLO Lament in Good Weather, 299
SANDRA M. GILBERT Mafioso, 299
MARIA FAMA Picking Apricots with Zia Antonia, 300
ROSANNA COLASURDO Mortadella, 301
MARY ANN MANNINO Keep the Wheat and Let the
Chaff Lie, 308
LUCIA PERILLO The Northside at Seven, 310
MARIA LAURINO Words, 312
RACHEL GUIDO DEVRIES How to Sing to a Dago, 320
DOROTHY BARRESI The Post-Rapture Diner, 321
LOUISE DESALVO Cutting the Bread, 322.
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