Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “marie bona”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Right Thing to Do

    A Novel

    by Josephine Gattuso Hendin, Mary Jo Bona ...
    A young Italian American woman struggles to find her way between two cultures in this novel of "familial dignity . . . credibility and intelligence" ( Kirkus Reviews).On a stroll in his Queens neighborhood, Sicilian-born Nino Giardello glimpses his daughter, ambitious nineteen-year-old Gina, heading for the subway. Silently, he follows her to Manhattan and watches, outraged, as she walks into the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Personal Effects

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

    by Emily Bernard, Mary-Jo Bona, Jenn Brandt, Amy Jo Burns, Kimberly A. Costino, Peter Covino, Jeana Del Rosso, Jennifer-Ann Di Gregori-Kightlinger, Joshua Fausty, Margaux Fragoso, John Gennari, Benjamin D. Hagen, Mark Hussey, Lia Ottaviano, Theodora Patrona, Kym Ragusa, Ilaria Serra, Julija Sukys, Anthony Julian Tamburri ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Italian America
    Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of memoir writing, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives. More than an anthology, Personal Effects represents an author case ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Mothers, Mobility, Narrative

    Maternality in US Literature

    by Mary Jo Bona ...
    Series series SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures
    Shows how US literary representations of mothering across racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ communities challenge ideological prescriptions about motherhood and maternal love.Mothers, Mobility, Narrative pairs women-identified writers whose work illuminates a range of maternal practices in the face of egregious structural inequalities and obstacles. By using the critical lens of maternal feminism, ... Read more

    $41.79 CAD

  • Women Writing Cloth

    Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary

    by Mary Jo Bona ...
    Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary performs a ground-breaking intervention by uncovering the relationship between literary cloth-working women and migration in a range of American novels across centuries. Bona demonstrates how four authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, and Adria Bernardi, innovate on pre-modern stories of weaving women in order ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • By the Breath of Their Mouths

    Narratives of Resistance in Italian America

    by Mary Jo Bona ...
    Series series SUNY series in Italian/American Culture
    Examines the liberating power of speech and its influence on generations of Italian American writers.In By the Breath of Their Mouths, Mary Jo Bona examines the oral uses of language and the liberating power of speech in Italian American writing, as well as its influences on generations of assimilated Italian American writers. Probing and wide-ranging, Bona's analysis reveals the lasting ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Shoemaker's Wife

    A Novel

    by Adriana Trigiani ...
    "…an old-fashioned, romantic tale of two star-tangled lovers...but also a paean to artisanal work, food, friendship and family…Trigiani is a master of palpable and visual detail." — Washington PostBeloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career—a breathtaking epic romance and multigenerational love story that spans two ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Black on Both Sides

    A Racial History of Trans Identity

    by C. Riley Snorton ...
    Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay StudiesThe ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Tuscan Holiday

    by Holly Chamberlin ...
    A mother and daughter travel to Italy together—and discover a world of new possibilities and second chances . . .Marina Caldwell is thrilled to receive a two-week trip to Tuscany as a college graduation gift. That is, until she realizes her mother wants to go with her. The gulf between idealistic single parent Elizabeth and cautious, controlled Marina seems too wide to bridge, even with the aid of ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How To Be Gay

    by David M. Halperin ...
    A pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to become who they are. The genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised stereotypes—aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers—and in the social meaning of style. ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Ghostly Matters

    Haunting and the Sociological Imagination

    by Avery F. Gordon ...
    “Avery Gordon’s stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. ” —George Lipsitz“The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny.” —American Studies International“Ghostly Matters immediately establishes Avery Gordon as a leader among her generation of social and cultural ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Black Looks

    Race and Representation

    by bell hooks ...
    In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film—and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk ... Read more

    $61.82 CAD

  • Murder In Matera

    A True Story of Passion, Family, and Forgiveness in Southern Italy

    by Helene Stapinski ...
    “A murder mystery, a model of investigative reporting, a celebration of the fierce bonds that hold families together through tragedies…Murder in Matera is a gem.” — San Francisco Chronicle"Tantalizing" — NPR“A thrilling detective story… Stapinski pursues the study of her family’s criminal genealogy with unexpected emotional results.” — Library ... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook