Queen Calafia's paradise : California and the Italian American novel /
Scambray, Kenneth.
Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-206) and index.
Cultural authority and the western Italian American experience in Jo Pagano's Golden wedding -- America's Americas : the melting pot begins to cool in Lorenzo Madalena's Confetti for Gino -- The southern California condition in P.M. Pasinetti's From the academy bridge -- Unmasking the ethnic alien : Italian American identity in Dorothy Bryant's Miss Giardino -- "This country of palimpsests" : the Italian American experience in Steven Varni's The inland sea -- The ambidextrous devil in John Fante's The road to Los Angeles -- Success in the West : Italian American representation in John Fante's Ask the dust -- The prince and the peasant wop in John Fante's Dreams from Bunker Hill -- Heresies : Catholics and communists in John Fante's Full of life -- Mapping the future : the "y" in the Italian American genotype in John Fante's "My dog stupid" -- Resurrecting the Italian American self in John Fante's The brotherhood of the grape.
American literature
American literature
Italian Americans in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Group identity in literature.
American literature