{"product_id":"chiaroscuro-essays-on-identity-revised-edition-9780299160845","title":"Chiaroscuro: Essays on Identity: Revised Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Helen Barolini\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A lively, lucid, and often extremely moving collection of essays.\"-Sandra Gilbert, author of \u003ci\u003eWrongful Death: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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 \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Milan Kundera: Public Events, Private Affairs and Short Time\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Part memoir, part social commentary, and part literary criticism, \u003ci\u003eChiaroscuro\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eChiaroscuro\u003c\/i\u003e is an updated re-introduction to Barolini's American Book Award-winning collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian-American Women.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408557039767,"sku":"9780299160845","price":2752.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780299160845.webp?v=1767310074","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/chiaroscuro-essays-on-identity-revised-edition-9780299160845","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}