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  1. Spatialities in Italian American women's literature
    beyond the mean streets
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "Examining the family saga as an instrument of literary analysis of writing by Italian American women, this book argues that the family saga represents a key strategy for Italian American female writers as a form which distinctly allows them to... more

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    "Examining the family saga as an instrument of literary analysis of writing by Italian American women, this book argues that the family saga represents a key strategy for Italian American female writers as a form which distinctly allows them to establish cultural, gender and literary traditions. Spaces are inherently marked by the ideology of the societies that create and practice them, and this volume engages with spaces of cultural and gendered identity, particularly those of the 'mean streets' in Italian American fiction, which provide a method of critically analysing the configurations and representations of identity associated with the Italian American community. Key authors examined include Julia Savarese, Marion Benasutti, Tina De Rosa, Helen Barolini, Melania Mazzucco and Laurie Fabiano. This book is suitable for students and scholars in Literature, Italian Studies, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies"--...

     

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  2. Spatialities in Italian American women's literature
    beyond the mean streets
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon

    Icons of ethnicity : identity and representation of Italian Americans -- The Italian American counter-flâneuse : the right to the city and embodied streets in Julia Savarese's The weak and the strong (1952) and Marion Benasutti's No steady job for... more

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    Icons of ethnicity : identity and representation of Italian Americans -- The Italian American counter-flâneuse : the right to the city and embodied streets in Julia Savarese's The weak and the strong (1952) and Marion Benasutti's No steady job for Papa (1966) -- Genealogies of place : spatial belonging in Helen Barolini's Umbertina (1979) and Tina De Rosa's Paper fish (1980) -- Gendering the urban pioneers : pictorial and emotional geographies in Melania Mazzucco's Vita (2003) and Laurie Fabiano's Elizabeth Street (2006).

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781000390889; 9781003173243; 9781000390841
    Series: Interdisciplinary research in gender
    Subjects: American fiction; American fiction; American fiction; American fiction; Group identity in literature; Italian Americans in literature; Italian Americans; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (164 Seiten)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  3. Spatialities in Italian American women's literature
    beyond the mean streets
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon

    Icons of ethnicity : identity and representation of Italian Americans -- The Italian American counter-flâneuse : the right to the city and embodied streets in Julia Savarese's The weak and the strong (1952) and Marion Benasutti's No steady job for... more

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    Icons of ethnicity : identity and representation of Italian Americans -- The Italian American counter-flâneuse : the right to the city and embodied streets in Julia Savarese's The weak and the strong (1952) and Marion Benasutti's No steady job for Papa (1966) -- Genealogies of place : spatial belonging in Helen Barolini's Umbertina (1979) and Tina De Rosa's Paper fish (1980) -- Gendering the urban pioneers : pictorial and emotional geographies in Melania Mazzucco's Vita (2003) and Laurie Fabiano's Elizabeth Street (2006).

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781000390889; 9781003173243; 9781000390841
    Series: Interdisciplinary research in gender
    Subjects: American fiction; American fiction; American fiction; American fiction; Group identity in literature; Italian Americans in literature; Italian Americans; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (164 Seiten)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  4. Spatialities in Italian American Women's Literature
    Beyond the Mean Streets
    Published: 2021; ©2021
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Group, Milton

    Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Icons of ethnicity: Identity and representation of Italian Americans -- Controlling images and mean streets: the cultural space... more

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    Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Icons of ethnicity: Identity and representation of Italian Americans -- Controlling images and mean streets: the cultural space of Italian American Women -- Family narratives as a negotiation space: the ethnic bildungsroman and the family saga -- Intersecting perspectives on gender, ethnicity and space -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: The Italian American counter- flâneuse : The right to the city and embodied streets in Julia Savarese's The Weak and the Strong ( 1952) and Marion Benasutti's No Steady Job for Papa ( 1966) -- The (re)production of space: class, ethnicity and gender inequality -- Walking the embodied streets: reading intersectionality through the counter- flâneuse -- Unsettling gendered spaces: the myth of male dynasties -- Rethinking mobilities from the perspective of embodied spatiality -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Genealogies of place: Spatial belonging in Helen Barolini's Umbertina ( 1979) and Tina De Rosa's Paper Fish ( 1980) -- We are only third generation: identity politics and the drive for genealogy -- Locating identity: place-making and cultural change -- Spatial displacement and its contradictions: gendering and racializing place -- Elegies and genealogies of place: inscribing identity through generational and spatial discourse -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Gendering the urban pioneers: Pictorial and emotional geographies in Melania Mazzucco's Vita (2003) and Laurie Fabiano's Elizabeth Street ( 2006) -- Picturing the legend: putting women in historical and urban spaces -- Gendering the city: toward a located politics of difference -- Spatialized difference: understanding spatial design and discourse -- Bodies and boundaries: embodiment, emotion and agency -- Notes -- References.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781000390841
    Series: Interdisciplinary Research in Gender Ser.
    Subjects: American fiction-Italian American authors-History and criticism; American fiction-Women authors-History and criticism; American fiction-20th century-History and criticism; American fiction-21st century-History and criticism; Group identity in literature; Italian Americans in literature; Italian Americans-Intellectual life; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (171 pages)
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