Una recensione di La Brigantessa di Donna Lee Miele sulla rivista letteraria e culturale ′′ VIA ′′ (Voices in Italian Americana) Vol. 30 #2 (www.bordigherapress.org)
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Voices in Italian Americana Volume 30, Spring 2019, Number 2 Nicholas Grosso, Editorial Coordinator. © Bordighera Inc.“LIVING TRANSCULTURAL SPACES”: MELBOURNE DIASPORE ITALIANE PAPERSFred Gardaphé. Introduction (3 ). Steven Sacco. The Struggle to Recapture Calabese Dialect Skills (5). Francesca Pierini. Anglophone Popular Narratives of Italian Otherness and the Politics of … (19). John Gatt-Rutter. Doing Without Dad in the Italian-Australian Diaspora (33). Enzo Colombo. New Italians(45). CREATIVE NON-FICTIONSusan Caperna Lloyd. Angela ( 61). FICTIONLisa Pike. Punta Bianca (6 9). Tony Taddei. The Sons of the Santorelli (74 ). Vince Sgambati. Figlio Mio(78). POETRYNathalie Handal. “ Intermezzo” (89); “Quando l’aqua ama” (90); “Il corpo di Maria” (91). Elisa Biagini, translations by Kelly O’Rourke. “ Fiato” (92); “Nell’orecchio” (94); “L’occhio” (96). Anthony Cappo. “The Great Outdoors” (98); “Palimpsest” (100). Dennis Barone. “ Hold Still” (101); “Letter Home” (102). Daniel Thomas Moran. “A Letter to My Strombolianos” (103). REVIEWSAmy Barone, We Became Summer ( David Albano) ( 107). Alice M. Manica, Finding Alma: An Italian Journey ( Meghan Flaherty) (108). Moreno Giovannoni, The Fireflies of Autumn and Other Tales of San Ginese ( Kathleen Fortin) ( 109). Dennis Barone, Frame Narrative (Alan J. Gravano) ( 111).Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli, La Brigantessa (Donna Lee Miele) ( 112). Marisa Labozetta, A Day in June ( Theodora Patrona) ( 114).
Ecco alcuni estratti:
′′ In una deliziosa svolta sulla tradizione degli eroi fuorilegge à la Robin Hood, Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli ci presenta Gabriella Falcone… in un romanzo rigoglioso e affascinante ambientato in Calabria nel 1862 sullo sfondo caotico dell’unificazione italiana.”
′′ La storia, che farebbe un rollicking swashbuckler di un film, viene raccontata con abbondante attenzione ai dettagli storici.”
Trailer del libro:
Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli