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Queen Calafia's paradise : California and the Italian American novel
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- Creator
- Kenneth Scambray
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- 211 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0838641172, 9780838641170
- OCLC
- ocm69734539
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-206) and index.
- Cultural authority and the western Italian American experience in Jo Pagano's Golden wedding -- America's Americas : the melting pot begins to cool in Lorenzo Madalena's Confetti for Gino -- The southern California condition in P.M. Pasinetti's From the academy bridge -- Unmasking the ethnic alien : Italian American identity in Dorothy Bryant's Miss Giardino -- "This country of palimpsests" : the Italian American experience in Steven Varni's The inland sea -- The ambidextrous devil in John Fante's The road to Los Angeles -- Success in the West : Italian American representation in John Fante's Ask the dust -- The prince and the peasant wop in John Fante's Dreams from Bunker Hill -- Heresies : Catholics and communists in John Fante's Full of life -- Mapping the future : the "y" in the Italian American genotype in John Fante's "My dog stupid" -- Resurrecting the Italian American self in John Fante's The brotherhood of the grape
Subjects
- American literature -- Italian American authors -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Italian Americans in literature.
- Ethnic groups in literature.
- Group identity in literature.
- American literature -- Italian influences.
- California -- In literature.
- West (U.S.) -- In literature.