By the breath of their mouths : narratives of resistance in Italian America / / Mary Jo Bona

• Autore: Bona Mary Jo
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/851
• Soggetto topico: American literature - Italian American authors - History and criticism; Italian Americans in literature; Italian Americans - Intellectual life
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Justice/Giustizia -- Faith/Fede -- Story/Racconto -- Land/Terra -- History Singer/Cantastorie -- Precursor/Precursore -- Death/Morte -- Revival/Risorgimento -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In By the Breath of Their Mouths, Mary Jo Bona examines the oral uses of language and the liberating power of speech in Italian American writing, as well as its influences on generations of assimilated Italian American writers. Probing and wide-ranging, Bona's analysis reveals the lasting importance of storytelling and folk narrative, their impact on ethnic, working-class, and women's literatures, and their importance in shaping multiethnic literature. Drawing on a wide range of material from several genres, including oral biographies, fiction, film, poetry, and memoir, and grounded in recent theories of narrative and autobiography, postcolonial theory, and critical multiculturalism, By the Breath of Their Mouths is must reading for students in Italian American studies in particular and ethnic studies and multiethnic literature more generally.
• Titolo autorizzato: By the breath of their mouths
• ISBN: 1-4384-2997-5; 1-4416-3544-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815022003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series in Italian/American culture.