Women of Shadows: A Study of the Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy - Couverture souple

Cornelisen, Ann

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140147853 ISBN 13 : 9780140147858

Editeur : Penguin Books, 1991

Synopsis

Book by Cornelisen Ann

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

With haunting photographs and piercing descriptions, Women of the Shadows depicts the secluded women of southern Italy and their passionate, painful, heartrending existence. Cornelisen, who lived among these women in the mountainous villages of Lucania after World War II, reveals their struggles during a time when most of their men had to leave for factories in the industrial north. The women remained behind to work the fields. There's Peppina, Ninetta, Teresa, Maria, Pinuccia, and Cettina, all women who "have done things of which they are not proud; they know it in their hearts, as one woman said, that nothing is private, they would also agree with her conclusion: That doesn't mean you get used to it." With an extraordinary understanding of the interior lives of these and other women, Cornelisen brings them out of the shadows to tell their heroic stories in a book which truly merits the label "classic." A new introduction by the author suggests that the more things change, the more, in essence, they remain the same.

Revue de presse :

"Required reading for all those whose work is with poor people." --Library Journal

"One of those rare works that deserves a place alongside Oscar Lewis's Children of Sanchez and James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Read these portraits . . . Ann Cornelisen knows these women so well, and her regard for them is so loving, complicated, and despairing that her book is worth a shelf of dissertations on Italian village life." -- New York Times Book Review

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140147853
• ISBN 13: 9780140147858
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256