Intersecting diasporas : italian americans and allyship in us fiction / Suzanne Manizza Roszak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manizza Roszak, Suzanne, 1985- author.

Series:

SUNY series in Italian/American Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Italian American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Representational roots. Romance, liberation, and peril : representing Italian identities from outside the diaspora(s)

Diasporic writers on Italian America. Sex and diaspora in the new "Italian novel" : James Baldwin and Bernard Malamud

Privileged Italians, poor Italians : Carolina De Robertis, Chang-rae Lee, and Italy in the Americas

Returning the favor : Italian Americans write back. "Mayan queens," secondhand suits, and toxic white masculinity : Fante and DeLillo

Off-white allies : writing Irish and Romani women's lives from Puzo to De Rosa

The limits of allyship : returning to Italy with A Ciambra.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438481630

1438481632