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Autore: | Barolini Helen <1925-> |
Titolo: | A circular journey / / Helen Barolini |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2006 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
Disciplina: | 818/.5409 |
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Soggetto topico: | Authors, American - 20th century |
Italian American women - Intellectual life | |
American literature - Italian influences | |
Italian Americans in literature | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | A circular journey |
ISBN: | 0-8232-4756-2 |
0-8232-2617-4 | |
1-4294-7899-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825222203321 |
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