Personal Effects : Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise Desalvo.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Habit of Mind" -- Memoir -- Louise DeSalvo's "Even in Death, La Bella Figura": A Meditation on Honor, Respect, and the Silences That Bind -- The Poetics of Trauma: Intertextuality, Rhythm, and Concision in Vertigo and Writing as a Way of Healing -- Fixing and Fictioning: Memory and Catholicism in Vertigo -- Portrait of the Mother as a Writer and Researcher -- Louise DeSalvo: Essaying Memoir -- Teaching -- On Vulnerability and Risk: Learning to Write and Teach Memoir as a Student of Louise DeSalvo -- Fixing Things: What Louise DeSalvo Has Taught Me about Writing -- Dark Whiteness and Literacy without Assimilation: DeSalvo's Unlikely Narrative -- Mixing Bowl: On Crazy in the Kitchen, DeSalvo in the Classroom, and the Day I Got into Hunter -- Furthering the Voyage: Reconsidering DeSalvo in Contemporary Woolf Studies -- Culture -- The Context of Louise DeSalvo's Impact: Incest in Virginia Woolf's Biography -- "Thirty- seven Is the Unraveling Time" and Other Fictions of Fidelity in the Works of Louise DeSalvo -- Life Online: Skating and Breaking the Surface of the Self -- The Fruits of Her Labor: Louise DeSalvo's Memoirs of Food and Family -- Mapping the Female Ethnic Self in the Family Battleground: Vertigo and the Greek American Novel -- DeSalvo's Rialto: On Moving as a Livable Bridge -- The Knife and the Bread, the Brutal and the Sacred: Louise DeSalvo at the Family Table -- Afterword. Crazy in the Study: Trying to Claim a Tradition in Louise DeSalvo's Accented Writing -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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.

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