Louise A. DeSalvo ist eine amerikanische Schriftstellerin, deren Werk sich häufig mit der italienisch-amerikanischen Kultur auseinandersetzt und die auch eine anerkannte Woolf-Gelehrte ist. Ihr Schreiben taucht tief in die Komplexität von Familie, Erinnerung und Identität ein und betont oft die heilende Kraft des Geschichtenerzählens. DeSalvo erforscht Themen wie Trauma und Resilienz, während ihre literarische Analyse von Woolf tiefe Einblicke in das Leben und Werk dieser ikonischen Autorin offenbart. Durch ihre vielfältigen Schriften bietet sie den Lesern einen Weg, sich mit ihren eigenen Erzählungen zu verbinden und ihr transformatives Potenzial zu verstehen.
A stunning collection of one writer's beginnings. DeSalvo reframes and revises memoiristic essays that were the seeds of longer collections, to reveal her true power as a memoirist: the ability to dig ever deeper for personal and political truths that illuminate what it means to be a woman, a child of Italian immigrants, a writer, and a scholar.
In this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to heal the emotional and physical wounds that are an inevitable part of life. Contrary to what most self-help books claim, just writing won't help you; in fact, there's abundant evidence that the wrong kind of writing can be damaging. DeSalvo's program is based on the best available and most recent scientific studies about the efficacy of using writing as a restorative tool. With insight and wit, she illuminates how writers, from Virginia Woolf to Henry Miller to Audre Lorde to Isabel Allende, have been transformed by the writing process. Writing as a Way of Healing includes valuable advice and practical techniques to guide and inspire both experienced and beginning writers.
The revealing exchange of correspondence between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Wolf from 1922-41.