The Cen­ter for Ital­ian & Ital­ian Amer­i­can Cul­ture (CIIAC) will host a pre­sen­ta­tion by Edvige Giunta (Women’s His­tory Month) about her lat­est book — “Embroi­dered Sto­ries: Inter­pret­ing Women’s Domes­tic Needle­work from the Ital­ian Dias­pora.” For Ital­ian immi­grants and their descen­dants, needle­work rep­re­sents a marker of iden­tity, a cul­tural tomb­stone as pow­er­ful as pasta and Neapoli­tan music. Out of the arti­facts of their mem­ory and their descen­dants, they used embroi­dery, sewing, knit­ting and cro­chet­ing to help define who they were and who they have become. This book is an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary col­lec­tion of cre­ative work by authors of Ital­ian ori­gin and aca­d­e­mic essays.

Edvige Giunta is a pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish at NJ City Uni­ver­sity. She teaches mem­oir as well as other writ­ing and lit­er­a­ture courses. She has spent the last decade writ­ing and orga­niz­ing cul­tural events about Ital­ian women authors and get­ting their works pub­lished and reprinted. She is the author of “Writ­ing with an Accent: Con­tem­po­rary Ital­ian Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture, Film and Pop­u­lar Culture.”

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Fees:
mem­ber rate — $7.00
non-members — $10.00.

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