%0 Journal Article
%T Devozione: A Poetic Inquiry Into Some Italian American Women¡¯s Devotion to St. Rita
%A Michelle Reale
%J Cultural Studies £¿ Critical Methodologies
%@ 1552-356X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1532708617750992
%X The devotion of saints in many Italian American households is as natural as breathing. One need not be particularly ¡°religious¡± in the strict sense of the word. There is a mystical quality, especially among the women that I know and have known. In the following poems, I use poetic inquiry to show a vividness of experience that has an ineffable quality that would be more difficult to render in narrative and to ¡°. . . use poetic representation as a means to evoke emotional response in readers and listeners in an effort to produce some shared experience between researcher, audience and participant.
%K Italian American women
%K devozione
%K poetic inquiry
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1532708617750992