A circular journey / Helen Barolini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barolini, Helen, 1925-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Italian American women--Intellectual life.

Italian American women.

American literature--Italian influences.

American literature.

Italian Americans in literature.

Barolini, Helen, 1925-.

Barolini, Helen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Novelist, critic, pioneer voice in Italian-American literature, Helen Barolini has tracked the intersections of ethnic identity, generations, and art in a remarkable body of work. Here, she brings together essays both personal and critical in a revealing self-portraitGfrom her youth in an Italian immigrant home in upstate New York to a life at home and abroad in two cultures. From its title essayGa classic chronicle of rediscovering a cultureGto explorations of Italy as a creative springboard, this book is a circling of both worlds as they touched and merged in her journey.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Table of Contents

Part I: Home

2004 James Street

My Mother's Wedding Day

Zio Filippo at Summer Camp

The Spinsters of Taos

Part II: Abroad

A Fish Tale

Montale and Mosca in a Train

Sicily, Light and Dark

A Classical Excursion

Neruda vs. Sartre at the Sea

Souvenirs of Venice

Being at Bellagio

Part III: Return

Shutting the Door on Someone

Paris in the Boondocks

A Story of Rings

A Circular Journey.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-4756-2

0-8232-2617-4

1-4294-7899-3

OCLC:

191945473