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Personal Effects

Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise Desalvo

Personal Effects( )
Editor: Caronia, Nancy
Giunta, Edvige
Contribution by: Bernard, Emily
Bona, Mary Jo
Brandt, Jenn
Burns, Amy Jo
Costino, Kimberly A.
Covino, Peter
Del Rosso, Jeana
Di Gregori-Kightlinger, Jennifer-Ann
Fausty, Joshua
Fragoso, Margaux
Gennari, John
Hagen, Benjamin D.
Hussey, Mark
Ottaviano, Lia
Patrona, Theodora
Ragusa, Kym
Serra, Ilaria
Sukys, Julija
Tamburri, Anthony Julian
Series title:Critical Studies in Italian America Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8232-6227-4
Publication Date:Oct 2014
Publisher:Fordham University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $70.00
Book Description:

The two editors and eighteen scholars and creative nonfiction writers offer a lucid view of a writer who has produced one of the most provocative bodies of memoir writing in contemporary US literature, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives.

Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.552 x 9.165 x 0.93 Inches
Book Weight:1.175 Pounds
Author Biography
(Editor)
Margaux Artemia Fragoso was born in West New York, New Jersey on April 15, 1979. When she was 7-years-old, she started being abused by a 51-year-old pedophile. The relationship lasted for 15 years until he committed suicide. She visited him regularly at his home, often chaperoned by her mother, who was mentally ill. They played games together, including one called Tiger. She received a bachelor¿s degree in English from New Jersey City University in 2002 and a master¿s degree and a doctorate in English from Binghamton University. Her memoir Tiger, Tiger was published in 2011. She died of ovarian canceron on June 23, 2017 at the age of 38.

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