Beyond The Margin Readings in Italian

This collection of essays gives a critical overview of Italian American literary and cultural studies. The essays deal with notions and/or characteristics of Italian American literature and culture in a general sense, essays devoted to specific writers, and essays on filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Brian DePalma, and Martin Scorsese, who have interpreted Italian American culture in their works.

Acknowledgments

7

(2)

Introduction

9

(14)

Part One: General Considerations

23

(60)

1. Off the Boat and Up the Creek without a Paddle--or, Where Italian Americana Might Swim: Prolepsis of an Ethnopoetics

23

(23)

JUSTIN VITIELLO

2. Italian American Culturalism: A Critique

46

(23)

RENATE HOLUB

3. Divine Comedy Blues

69

(14)

ROBERT VISCUSI

Part Two: Reading Literature

83

(86)

4. Emmanuel Carnevali's "great good bye"

83

(12)

MARIO DOMENICHELLI

5. John Fante, "The Saga of Arturo Bandini"

95

(19)

ERNESTO LIVORNI

6. Blending "Literary" Discourses: Helen Barolini's Italian/American Narratives

114

(17)

EDVIGE GIUNTA

7. (Ex)Tending or Escaping Ethnicity: Don DeLillo and Italian/American Literature

131

(21)

FRED L. GARDAPHE

8. Sentences of Self and Blood and Sea: The Poetry of Sandra M. Gilbert

152

(17)

DIANE RAPTOSH

Part Three: Reading Film

169

(56)

9. The Image of Blacks in the Work of Coppola, De Palma, and Scorsese

169

(29)

STEPHANIE HULL

MAURIZIO VIANO

10. From Lapsed to Lost: Scorsese's Boy and Ferrara's Man

198

(27)

REBECCA WEST

Part Four: Further Readings

225

(59)

11. Emigrants, Expatriates, and Exiles: Italian Writing in the United States

225

(18)

PAOLO A. GIORDANO

12. Rethinking Italian/American Studies: From the Hyphen to the Slash and Beyond

243

(41)

ANTHONY JULIAN TAMBURRI

Notes on Contributors

284

(3)

Index

287

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Beyond The Margin Readings in Italian Americana

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