Mary Jo Bona is Professor of Italian American Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. Her books include Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers; The Voices We Carry: Recent Italian American Women's Fiction, Second Edition; and Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates, also published by SUNY Press.

Acknowledgments
Introduction 
1. Justice/Giustizia-Private Justice and the Folkloric Community in the World of Italian Americans

2. Faith/Fede-Plenty to Confess: Women and (Italian) American Catholicism

3. Story/Racconto-Una chiacchierata nel passato: Rosa and Marie of Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant

4. Land/Terra-Village People in Guido D'Agostino's Novels

5. History Singer/Cantastorie-Vernacular Voices in Paule Marshall's and Tina De Rosa's Kunstlerromane

6. Precursor/Precursore-Mother's Tongue: Italian American Daughters and Female Precursors

7. Death/Morte-What They Talk About When They Talk About Death

8. Revival/Risorgimento-Stories Continue: Shaping U.S. Italian American Writing
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