Change, however, rather than pure survival propels newly female created and depicted Italian women -- in Barolini, women are not forces of the home front and reaction and religion, as they are in male urban narratives. Rather, beginning even in Barolini's Italian Calabria, women propel a family destiny of fundamental change. After the first years of struggle, the woman and her husband relocate the family to upstate New York where it is Umbertina's determination and innate intelligence that propels her family to unexpected and unanticipated middle class success and security. Thus, because of the determination of a successive generation of women the family can live out the destiny of the American dream that their forbearers set in motion so many years ago in Italy and resolving the tensions between the Italian-American women's conflicts between their socially constructed dual identities and their yearnings for both success and security, family life and a vocation in the larger American world.
Thus, the addition of female voices has added important nuance to these traditional images of the roles of Italian women in literature. One recent literary addition in critical form may be found in the Evidge Giunta's text Writing With an Accent. This text of literary criticism acts as a challenge to publishers and readers alike to move beyond conventional and stereotypical representations of Italian-American women as "ignorant, " as part of a people whose largely Catholic dominated culture is makes them servants of men, made up of "pasta and olive oil" (Giunta, 2002, p.18) and embrace "more complex life stories that have been excluded from the "public and historically sanctioned narratives" written by Italian and non-Italian men (Giunta, 2002, p.120).
Giunta writes that "women writers of Italian descent have to fight both the culture that silences their ethnicity and the ethnicity that silences their gender" (Giunta, 2002,p. 81). But she is aware that the act of creating art does not simply end the silencing and argues that "the literature of many contemporary Italian-American women simultaneously verbalizes and silences ethnicity" (Giunta, 2002,p.73). In other words, the concept of writing with a distinct accent as expressed in the title of her work signifies that Italian-American women as a group, regardless of age or martial status all, in some way that "are perceived and perceive themselves as culturally marginal," regardless of the status they have achieved socially or economically (Giunta, 2002,p.5). Like Helen Barolini in both her fiction and in her personal essays and scholarship, Helen Barolini,...
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