Leaving Little Italy: Essaying Italian American Culture / Edition 1

by Fred L. Gardaphé

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791459188
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	11/06/2003
Series:	SUNY series in Italian/American Culture
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	215
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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