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Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (New Americanists)
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In the first major critical reading of Italian American narrative literature in two decades, Fred L. Gardaph presents an interpretive overview of Italian American literary history. Examining works from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, he develops a new perspectivevariously historical, philosophical, and culturalby which American writers of Italian descent can be read, increasing the discursive power of an ethnic literature that has received too little serious critical attention.Gardaph draws on Vicos concept of history, as well as the work of Gramsci, to establish a culturespecific approach to reading Italian American literature. He begins his historical reading with narratives informed by oral traditions, primarily autobiography and autobiographical fiction written by immigrants. From these earliest socialrealist narratives, Gardaph traces the evolution of this literature through tales of the godfather and the mafia; the reinvention of ethnicity in works by Helen Barolini, Tina DeRosa, and Carole Maso; the move beyond ethnicity in fiction by Don DeLillo and Gilbert Sorrentino; to the short fiction of Mary Caponegro, which points to a new direction in Italian American writing.The result is both an ethnography of Italian American narrative and a model for reading the signs that mark the selffashioning inherent in literary and cultural production. Italian Signs, American Streets promises to become a landmark in the understanding of literature and culture produced by Italian Americans. It will be of interest not only to students, critics, and scholars of this ethnic experience, but also to those concerned with American literature in general and the place of immigrant and ethnic literatures within that wide framework.
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