Coming Close to Angela Bianchini's Distanze

Abstract: Angela Bianchini—in particular in her fiction—presents a multifaceted America, one which, while bearing clear parallels with her biography, progressively reflects her protagonists' search for independence and their realization of a literary vocation. Likewise, her essays often make room for dense and elegantly thought-provoking American sections, which extol women's contributions to U.S. history. Genre variations and gendered points of view figure among the chief components of her major quasi-trilogy, which deserves critical reapprisal especially for her contribution to imagining transnational subjectivity. These aspects, like all of her work, deserve a critical reappraisal. Bianchini's work merits greater recognition.