Coming Close to Angela Bianchini's Distanze

Especially in her fiction, Angela Bianchini 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 provoking American sections, which extol women’s contribution to U.S. history. 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.