A Semiotic of Ethnicity

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A Semiotic of Ethnicity
In (Re)cognition of the Italian/American Writer

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Anthony Julian Tamburri - Author

SUNY series in Italian/American Culture

Price: $50.50
Hardcover - 176 pages

Release Date: September 1998

ISBN10: 0-7914-3915-1
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-3915-9

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 176 pages

Release Date: September 1998

ISBN10: 0-7914-3916-X
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-3916-6

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Summary

Reexamines the notion of the "hyphenate writer," and offers a specific reading strategy that we may consider the Italian/American writer in the age of semiotics, poststructuralism, and the like.

"Tamburri makes crucial connections among the various generations of Italian/American writers, that, while rooted in the most authoritative scholarship, also provokes us to 'look forward' as to how we might see Italian/American literature in the future. Tamburri's work opens doors to an understanding of Italian/American literature that university students and other students in the field should pass through." -- Justin Vitiello, Temple University

Using semiotics as a theoretical foundation, this book reexamines the notion of the hyphenate writer. It argues for an analogous set of categories no longer chronologically or generationally based, but cognitively based, so that the traditionally considered "first-stage" or first generation hyphenate writer now figures as an "expressive" writer who is not necessarily part of the immigrant or first American-born generations. He or she may actually belong to a later generation and write about his or her ethnicity with those characteristics more readily associated with the first-stage hyphenate writer.

"This book brings to our literary attention writers not often discussed, and it considers them within the larger domain of ethnic subcultures in relation to a 'dominant' American culture." -- Joseph Natoli, author of Speeding to the Millennium: Film and Culture 1993-1995

Anthony Julian Tamburri is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Purdue University. He is the author of Of Saltimbanchi and Incendiari: Aldo Palazzeschi and Avant-Gardism in Italy; To Hyphenate or not to Hyphenate: the Italian/American Writer: Or, An Other American; and Per una lettura retrospettiva. Prose giovanili di Aldo Palazzeschi. He is coeditor (with Paolo A. Giordano) of Beyond the Margin: Readings in Italian Americana; (with Mary Jo Bona) of Italian Americans and the Media; (with Paolo A. Giordano and Fred L. Gardaphe) of From The Margin: Writings in Italian Americana; and editor of Fuori. Essays By Italian/American Lesbians and Gays.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I. New Strategies

1. In (Re)cognition of the Italian/American Writer: Definitions and Categories

Part II. New Readings

2. Tony Ardizzone's "Expressive" Evening News
3. Helen Barolini's "Comparative" Umbertina: The Italian/American Woman
4. Giose Rimanelli's "Synthetic" Benedetta in Guysterland: A "Liquid" Novel of Questionable Textual Boundaries

Part III. Further Readings

5. Looking Back: The Image of Italy in Umbertina
6. Gianna Patriarca's "Tragic" Thought: Italian Women and Other Tragedies
7. Italian/American Writer or Italian Poet Abroad?: Luigi Fontanella's Poetic Voyage

Part IV. Further Strategies

8. Italian/American Cultural Studies: Looking Forward

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

American Literature
Cultural Studies
Ethnicity
Postmodernism

34581/34582(JP//FK)

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