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Author:

Torgovnick, Marianna, 1949-

Title:

Crossing Ocean Parkway : readings by an Italian American daughter / Marianna De Marco Torgovnick.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

1994

Description:

xi, 177 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Italian Americans--New York--New York--Social life and customs.
Bensonhurst (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
American literature--Italian influences.
Italian Americans--Intellectual life.
Italian American women--Biography.
Italian Americans in literature.
Torgovnick, Marianna,--1949-

Notes:

SAU copy: Gift for the Timothy Walch Collection of Irish and Catholic Americana. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Crossing Ocean Parkway. On being white, female, and born in Bensonhurst -- Crossing Ocean Parkway -- Slasher stories -- The college way -- Readings by an Italian American daughter. Dr. Doolittle and the acquisitive life -- The Paglia principle -- The Godfather and the world's most typical novel -- The politics of the "We" -- Epilogue.

ISBN:

9780226808291
0226808297

LCCN:

94014355

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)