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Author Torgovnick, Marianna, 1949-

Title Crossing Ocean Parkway : readings by an Italian American daughter / Marianna De Marco Torgovnick.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.9851 T682C    Check Shelf
Description xi, 177 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents On being white, female, and born in Bensonhurst -- Crossing Ocean Parkway -- Slasher stories -- Slasher stories -- The college way -- Dr. Doolittle and the acquisitive life -- The Paglia principle -- The Godfather and the world's most typical novel -- The politics of the "We" -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the author.
Subject American literature -- Italian American authors -- History and criticism.
Italian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs.
Bensonhurst (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
American literature -- Italian influences.
Italian American women -- Biography.
Italian Americans in literature.
Torgovnick, Marianna, 1949-
ISBN 0226808297: $22.50
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