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Tables of Contents for Claiming a Tradition
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Ad Feminam: Women and Literature
ix
Sandra M. Gilbert
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
22
Family Novels of Development
23
34
Mari Tomasi's Like Lesser Gods and Marion Benasutti's No SteadyJob for Papa
``Growing Down''
57
36
Arrested Development in the Family Narratives of Octavia Waldo's A Cup of the Sun and Josephine Gattuso Hendin's
The Right Thing to Do
Remembering Their Names
93
33
The Developmental Journeys in Diana Cavallo's A Bridge of Leaves and Dorothy Bryant's Miss Giardino
A Process of Reconstruction
126
37
Recovering the Grandmother in Helen Barolini's Umbertina and Tina De Rosa's Paper Fish
Recent Developments in Italian American Women's Literary Traditions
163
38
Notes
201
28
Bibliography
229
14
Index
243