America/Trattabili
By: Dennis Barone
Series: Saggistica -- 3; Saggistica (New York, N.Y.) -- 3.
Publisher: Bordighera Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781599540184
Subjects: American literature; Italian American authors; Italian American literature; Italian Americans in literature
Other titles: America/Negotiable
Description: This book discusses how Italian American authors of different times and generations "negotiated" the American "terrain."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-190) and index.
Table of contents: title: Do not return to sender; title: Epic or eclogue; title: The Italian as other; title: The situations of the Italian American writer; title: Immigrant enigma; title: Anger and assimilation in New York; title: Rome, if you want; title: Beating the marbles game; title: Pagano's gold; title: The literature of sprawl; title: The black hand becomes the big box; title: Always different.