Itinerari autobiografici. Frammenti d’Italia nel mondo
Real and unreal worlds of Italians abroad throughout space, identity and writing. From Sebastiano Martelli’s preface: «Lucia Tirri’s work accomplishes a rich and articulated map of Italian migrants’ memoirs, with the support of an updated critical bibliography… These self-writings supply self-representations, but also coral representations of communities, the continuous flux of memory and life of the Italian diaspora, an ongoing reverberation of voices, memories, silences from the place of origins to the new world.
Born in New York, she grew up in the province of Avellino, where she lives and teaches. She received her degree and PhD at the University of Salerno. She attended seminars in Italy and in the United States, doing research in Boston, New York, Connecticut. Her current research interests focus on the memoirs written by Italians who migrated abroad or by their descendants. Her essays and reviews have appeared on Italian and international literary journals.
