Mary Jo Bona Professor, Italian American Studies and Chair, Women and Gender Studies at SUNY Stony Brook University has just published By the Breath of Their
Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America.

Now available in paperback, Bona examines the oral uses of language and the liberating power of speech in Italian American writing, as well as its influences on generations of assimilated Italian American writers. Visit http://www.sunypress.edu/p-4948-by-the-breath-of-their-mouths.aspx