A circular journey / / Helen Barolini

• Autore: Barolini Helen <1925->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Disciplina: 818/.5409; B
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II