Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Habit of Mind"
Memoir
Louise DeSalvo's "Even in Death, La Bella Figura": A Meditation on Honor, Respect, and the Silences That Bind
The Poetics of Trauma: Intertextuality, Rhythm, and Concision in Vertigo and Writing as a Way of Healing
Fixing and Fictioning: Memory and Catholicism in Vertigo
Portrait of the Mother as a Writer and Researcher
Louise DeSalvo: Essaying Memoir
Teaching
On Vulnerability and Risk: Learning to Write and Teach Memoir as a Student of Louise DeSalvo
Fixing Things: What Louise DeSalvo Has Taught Me about Writing
Dark Whiteness and Literacy without Assimilation: DeSalvo's Unlikely Narrative
Mixing Bowl: On Crazy in the Kitchen, DeSalvo in the Classroom, and the Day I Got into Hunter
Furthering the Voyage: Reconsidering DeSalvo in Contemporary Woolf Studies
Culture
The Context of Louise DeSalvo's Impact: Incest in Virginia Woolf's Biography
"Thirty- seven Is the Unraveling Time" and Other Fictions of Fidelity in the Works of Louise DeSalvo
Life Online: Skating and Breaking the Surface of the Self
The Fruits of Her Labor: Louise DeSalvo's Memoirs of Food and Family
Mapping the Female Ethnic Self in the Family Battleground: Vertigo and the Greek American Novel
DeSalvo's Rialto: On Moving as a Livable Bridge
The Knife and the Bread, the Brutal and the Sacred: Louise DeSalvo at the Family Table
Afterword. Crazy in the Study: Trying to Claim a Tradition in Louise DeSalvo's Accented Writing
Contributors
Index