Gardaphé Leaving Little Italy

Essaying Italian American Culture
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8597-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 215 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Italian/American Culture

Provides an overview of the past, present, and future of Italian American culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gardaphé, Fred L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. A Historical Survey
1. The Southern Answer: Making Little Italys
2. Inventing Italian America
3. Mythologies of Italian America: From Little Italys to Suburbs
Part II. Thematic Essays
4. Left Out: Three Italian American Writers of the 1930s
5. The Consequences of Class in Italian American Culture
6. Variations of Italian American Women's Autobiography
7. Criticism as Autobiography
8. We Weren't Always White: Race and Ethnicity in Italian American Literature
9. Linguine and Lust: Notes on Food and Sex in Italian American Culture
Conclusion: Leaving Little Italy: Legacies Real and Imagined
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fred L. Gardaphe directs the American and Italian/American Studies Programs at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author and editor of many books, including Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative; Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer; and From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana.