| Description |
305 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Off the boat and up the creek without a paddle, or, Where Italian Americans might swim : prolepsis of an ethnopoetics / Justin Vitiello -- Italian American culturalism : a critique / Renate Holub -- Divine comedy blues / Robert Viscusi -- Emanuel Carnevali's "great good bye" / Mario Domenichelli -- John Fante, "The saga of Arturo Bandini" / Ernesto Livorni -- Blending "literary" discourses : Helen Barolini's Italian/American narratives / Edvige Giunta -- (Ex)Tending or escaping ethnicity : Don DeLillo and Italian/American literature / Fred L. Gardaphé -- Sentences of self and blood and sea : the poetry of Sandra M. Gilbert / Diane Raptosh -- The image of Blacks in the work of Coppola, De Palma, and Scorsese / Stephanie Hull, Maurizio Viano -- From lapsed to lost : Scorsese's boy and Ferrara's man / Rebecca West -- Emigrants, expatriates, and exiles : Italian writing in the United States / Paolo A. Giordano -- Rethinking Italian/American studies : from the hyphen to the slash and beyond / Anthony Julian Tamburri. |
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American literature -- Italian American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Italian Americans -- Intellectual life.
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Italian Americans -- Social life and customs.
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American literature -- Italian influences.
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Italian Americans in literature.
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Italian Americans in motion pictures.
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| Added Author |
Giordano, Paolo, 1948-
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Tamburri, Anthony Julian.
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| ISBN |
0838637329 alkaline paper |
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