Transcultural Narrative Identities

Eva Pelayo SanÞudo holds a PhD in Gender and Diversity from the University of Oviedo and currently teaches at the University of Cantabria (Spain). Her research fields include American literature, ethnic studies and gender studies. Her monograph Spatialities in Italian American Women’s Literature: Beyond the Mean Streets (2021) has received several awards.María Pilar Rodríguez is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Deusto. She holds a PhD from Harvard University and has published extensively in the fields of literature, film, culture and gender studies. She is the Principal Investigator of the Basque Government’s communication research team.

• Acknowledgments – Preface – Pilar Rodríguez Pérez/Eva Pelayo Sañudo: Introduction. Theoretical Considerations: Memoir, Gender, Intersectional and Transcultural Perspectives – Eva Pelayo Sañudo: "And I will Pass On, Too, Stories": Matrilineal Legacies and Cultural Context in Louise DeSalvo’s Elegiac Memoirs Vertigo (1996) and Crazy in the Kitchen: Family, Feud, and Forgiveness (2004) – Eva Pelayo Sañudo: Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman: Hybrid Forms of the Bildungsroman Through Diane Di Prima’s Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969) and Recollections of My Life as a Woman (2001) – Eva Pelayo Sañudo: Space, Emotion, and Gender: Mapping Transcultural Identity in Kym Ragusa’s The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty and Belonging (2006) – Eva Pelayo Sañudo: The Wellspring of Nostalgia: Memory, Identity and Trauma in Caterina Edwards’ Finding Rosa: A Mother with Alzheimer, a Daughter in Search of the Past (2008) – Pilar Rodríguez Pérez: A Maternal Memoir: Transmemory, Transgenerational Storytelling and Transculturality in Mary Melfi’s Italy Revisited: Conversations with My Mother (2009) – Pilar Rodríguez Pérez: The Road to Now: Recollecting the Ethnic Quest in Penny Petrone’s Breaking the Mould (1995) and Embracing Serafina (2000).