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  1. Unmasking Motherhood: Journeys of Self-Discovery in Mary Melfi’s Italy Revisited: Conversations with My Mother and Genni Gunn’s Tracing Iris

    26 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Laura Rorato

    This paper will explore how the quest for the mother (whether the missing one of Gunn’s novel or the living one of Melfi’s memoir) leads the protagonists of both books to rediscover their mother...

    https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/4620/?v=1