Crossing Ocean Parkway : readings by an Italian American daughter
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書誌事項
Crossing Ocean Parkway : readings by an Italian American daughter
University of Chicago Press, 1994
大学図書館所蔵 全3件
注記
Includes bibliographical references
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Growing up an Italian-American in the Bensonhurst neighbourhood of New York City, Marianna De Marco longed for college, culture and upward mobility. Her daydreams circled around WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) heroes on television - like Robin Hood and the Cartwright family - but in Brooklyn she never encountered any. So she associated moving up with Ocean Parkway, a street that divides the working-class Italian neighbourhood where she was born from the middle-class Jewish neighbourhood into which she married. This book is Torgovnick's account of crossing cultural boundaries in American life, of what it means to be an Italian American woman who became a scholar and literary critic. The book features autobiographical moments interwoven with interpretations of American cultural icons, from Dr Dolittle to Lionel Trilling, "The Godfather" to Camille Paglia. Her experiences allow her to probe the cultural tensions in America caused by competing ideas of individuality and community, upward mobility and ethnic loyalty, acquisitiveness and spirituality.
目次
Preface Pt. 1: Crossing Ocean Parkway 1: On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst 3 2: Crossing Ocean Parkway 19 3: Slasher Stories 35 4: The College Way 59 Pt. 2: Readings by an Italian American Daughter 5: Dr. Dolittle and the Acquisitive Life 75 6: The Paglia Principle 91 7: The Godfather as the World's Most Typical Novel 109 8: The Politics of the "We" 137 Epilogue
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