Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora

Book presentation: Embroidered Stories:
Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora
(2014, University Press of Mississippi)

Edited by Joseph Sciorra and Edvige Giunta

Presented by Joseph Sciorra and Edvige Giunta

For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. The lives of these Italian women are woven into the artifacts of memory and imagination: embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting. Embroidered Stories is an exciting anthology including academic essays and creative works from Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States. The entire collection explores multiple interpretations of the relationships between needlework and immigration from a transnational perspective during the period of the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. The book’s editors and a number of the contributors will participate in this presentation. A book signing will follow the presentation.

This event is in English.

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From Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò.