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Article: Edvige Giunta. Writing with an Accent. Contemporary Italian American Women Authors.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2005
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Edvige Giunta. Writing with an Accent. Contemporary Italian American Women Authors. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
Sometimes a book is pushed forth by a strong force of urgency, and the reader cannot help but notice and come to share it. It is the case of Writing with an Accent. Contemporary Italian American Women Authors; the author, Edvige Giunta, feels her subject matter is too important to be left "unwritten" and alone. The writings of Italian American women have been left in the shadows for too long, and Giunta seriously tries to remedy this situation with a sense of life or death importance. She does so in a way that involves her persona as a writer, not only as ...