Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America (eBook)

Maria Laurino (Autor)

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2001
224 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-34351-9 (ISBN)

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Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity. With "e;intelligence and honesty"e; (Arizona Republic), she writes about guidos, bimbettes, and mammoni (mama's boys in Italy); examines the clashing aesthetics of Giorgio Armani and Gianni Versace; and unravels the etymology of southern Italian dialect words like gavone and bubidabetz. According to Frances Mayes, she navigates the conflicting forces of ethnicity "e;with humor and wisdom."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.6.2001
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Black • Calls • Classes • Colors • Cultures • Day • dialects • ethnically • Families • goods • h • Italians • Life • liked • Little • lively • longed • Looking • MAN • Men • Mothers • News • parent • Paste • People • Said • schools • self • Small • whiteness • WORD • Works • year • Young
• ISBN-10: 0-393-34351-0 / 0393343510
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34351-9 / 9780393343519