After identity
Subtitle: migration, critique, Italian American culture
By: Peter Carravetta
Series: Saggistica -- 21; Saggistica (New York, N.Y.) -- 21
Publisher: Bordighera Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781599540726
Subjects: Italian Americans; Ethnic identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Existence, migration, history; title: One: con/texts before the journeys: migration, narration, and historical identities; title: Two: dabblers, small fry, Canon fodder: problems and perspectives in Italian American literary history; title: Three: the silence of subalterns: contact, conflict, consolidation during the first wave (1880s-1913); title: Four: places, processes, positions in Italian American poetry and poetics; title: Five: Anthony Valerio and the refashioning of an American idol; title: Six: naming identity in the poetry of Maria Mazziotti Gillan; title: Sven: the historical poetics of Robert Viscusi; title: For a topological critique of Italian American culture.