Title Intersecting diasporas : Italian Americans and allyship in US fiction / Suzanne Manizza Roszak

Published Albany : State University of New York, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 223 pages) Series SUNY series in Italian/American culture SUNY series in Italian/American culture. Contents Representational roots. Romance, liberation, and peril : representing Italian identities from outside the diaspora(s) -- Diasporic writers on Italian America. Sex and diaspora in the new "Italian novel" : James Baldwin and Bernard Malamud -- Privileged Italians, poor Italians : Carolina De Robertis, Chang-rae Lee, and Italy in the Americas -- Returning the favor : Italian Americans write back. "Mayan queens," secondhand suits, and toxic white masculinity : Fante and DeLillo -- Off-white allies : writing Irish and Romani women's lives from Puzo to De Rosa -- The limits of allyship : returning to Italy with A Ciambra Summary "Examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 01, 2021) Subject American fiction -- Italian American authors -- History and criticism American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Italian Americans in literature. Identity politics in literature. American fiction -- Italian American authors American fiction American fiction -- Minority authors Ethnic relations Identity politics in literature Italian Americans in literature SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations -- 20th century Subject United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2020039944 ISBN 9781438481630 1438481632

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