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Author Gardaphé, Fred L.

Title Italian signs, American streets : the evolution of Italian American narrative / Fred L. Gardaphé.

Publication Info. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1996.

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.9851 G217I    Check Shelf
Description 241 pages ; 23 cm.
Series New Americanists
New Americanists.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-233) and index.
Contents Narrative in the poetic mode -- The early mythic mode : from autobiography to autobiographical fiction -- The middle mythic mode : godfathers as heroes, variations on a figure -- The later mythic mode : reinventing ethnicity through the grandmother figure -- Narrative in the philosophic mode.
Subject American literature -- Italian American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Italian Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.
American literature -- Italian influences.
Italian Americans -- Intellectual life.
Italian Americans in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Autobiography.
ISBN 0822317397 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0822317303 (acid-free paper)
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