Return Narratives : Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1611479940
ISBN-13
9781611479942
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Imprint
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 29th, 2017
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
464 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.60 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticism
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This study examines the third generation ethnic return to the homeland and its identity quest through myth, history, and storytelling as seen in late-twentieth-century novels. Through a comparison between Italian American and Greek American works, the book discusses contemporary ethnic cultures, histories, and the common painful identity issues.
This book is a comparative study of six Italian American and Greek American literary works written in the three last decades of the 20th century and examined in pairs. Based on the common theme of the authors'' return, either metaphorical or literal to the country of origin and its culture, Return Narratives explores the common motifs of mythology, ritual, and storytelling where the third generation writers resort to in their quest for self-definition. With a common historical and cultural background in the old neighboring countries, Greece and Italy, and a similar reception in the new world facilitating a comparative approach, the ethnic writers of the two literatures, clearly envisage ethnic space as a site of resilience and empowerment.
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