Louise A. DeSalvo es una escritora estadounidense cuya obra a menudo se adentra en la cultura italoamericana y es también una reconocida estudiosa de Virginia Woolf. Su escritura profundiza en las complejidades de la familia, la memoria y la identidad, enfatizando con frecuencia el poder curativo de la narración. DeSalvo explora temas de trauma y resiliencia, y su análisis literario de Woolf revela profundas perspectivas sobre la vida y obra de esta icónica autora. A través de sus variados escritos, ofrece a los lectores un camino para conectar con sus propias narrativas y comprender su potencial transformador.
A stunning collection of one writer's beginnings. DeSalvo reframes and revises memoiristic essays that were the seeds of longer collections, to reveal her true power as a memoirist: the ability to dig ever deeper for personal and political truths that illuminate what it means to be a woman, a child of Italian immigrants, a writer, and a scholar.
In this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to heal the emotional and physical wounds that are an inevitable part of life. Contrary to what most self-help books claim, just writing won't help you; in fact, there's abundant evidence that the wrong kind of writing can be damaging. DeSalvo's program is based on the best available and most recent scientific studies about the efficacy of using writing as a restorative tool. With insight and wit, she illuminates how writers, from Virginia Woolf to Henry Miller to Audre Lorde to Isabel Allende, have been transformed by the writing process. Writing as a Way of Healing includes valuable advice and practical techniques to guide and inspire both experienced and beginning writers.
The revealing exchange of correspondence between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Wolf from 1922-41.