Extremely Distant and Credibly Close: The Exilic American Fiction of Angela Bianchini

Especially in her fiction, Angela Bianchini (1921-2018) presents a multifaceted America, one which, while bearing clear parallels with her exilic and immigrant biography, progressively reflects her protagonists’ search for independence and their realization of a literary vocation. Genre variations and gendered points of view figure among the chief components of her major quasi-trilogy, deserving of a critical reappraisal, like all of her work, still under-recognized.