The Peasant and the Pen : Men, Enterprise, and the Recovery of Culture in Italian American Narrative
by
George Guida
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0820467308
ISBN-13
9780820467306
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 13th, 2003
Print length
116 Pages
Weight
294 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.60 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: general
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Often portrayed as criminals or amoral opportunists, Italian American men have been among the most misrepresented and misunderstood ethnic groups of the past century. This book provides a deeper understanding of Italian American manhood through careful readings of Italian, Italian American, and other narrative texts. Beginning with an analysis of Giovanni Verga’s late-nineteenth-century Sicilian peasant tales, it follows the journey of Italian American men as depicted in Horatio Alger’s rags-to-riches stories, immigrant autobiographies, John Fante’s realistic novels of first-generation male angst, and Anthony Valerio’s narratives of the struggle for personal and cultural identity in contemporary America.
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