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Finding Voices: Italian American Female Autobiography

Piroli, Marta
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1145368184

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2006, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
The central point of this thesis is the recognition and exploration of the tradition of female Italian American autobiography, focusing on the choice of some Italian American writers to camouflage their Italian background and change their name. The thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter explores a brief history of Italian migration in America during the nineteenth century. The second part of this chapter provides a literary discussion about the most important autobiographical theories over the twentieth century, focusing on the female self. The second chapter explores the role of Italian woman in Italian culture, and the first steps of emancipation of the children of the Italian immigrants. The third chapter will offer an approach to autobiography as a genre for expressing one’s self. The final chapter provides an analysis of significant Italian American women writers and their personal search for identity.
Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis (Advisor)
89 p.
Literature, American
Italian American culture; Italian American autobiography

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  • Piroli, M. (2006). Finding Voices: Italian American Female Autobiography [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1145368184

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Piroli, Marta. Finding Voices: Italian American Female Autobiography. 2006. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1145368184.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Piroli, Marta. "Finding Voices: Italian American Female Autobiography." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1145368184

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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