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- Book Title
- Ethnic Passages
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226244415
ISBN-13
9780226244419
eBay Product ID (ePID)
61403
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
237 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Ethnic Passages : Literary Immigrants in Twentieth-Century America
Publication Year
1993
Subject
General, American / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
92-024719
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
813.509
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Blood in the Marketplace: The Business of Family in The Godfather Narratives 2. "Working Ourselves Up": Middle-Class Realism and the Reproduction of Patriarchy in Bread Givers 3. Oedipus in Brownsville: Parricide, a House Divided, and Call It Sleep 4. The Old Man and the Boys in the Busheling Room: Form, Influence, and "The Tailor Shop" 5. Changing the Rituals: Courageous Daughtering and the Mystique of The Woman Warrior Conclusion: Remaking America, Revisited Notes Index
Synopsis
Ethnic literature figures prominently in the current debate on multiculturalism, but even its supporters have had little to say about it as literature, stressing instead its political and sociological context. Thomas J. Ferraro, in this lively and accessible study of modern fiction by Americans of immigrant background, argues that the best of these stories demand--and reward--close reading and attention to questions of genre and literary form. Ferraro engages the literature of immigration and mobility by asking what motivates its authors and what their work actually accomplishes. He concentrates on five diverse examples of the "up-from-the-ghetto" narrative: Mario Puzo's The Godfather , Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers , Henry Roth's Call It Sleep , Henry Miller's "The Tailor Shop," and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior . To Ferraro the unsuspected value of these works is that they recast the conventions of ethnic representation, illustrating the power of ethnic writing to capture and redirect the national literary imagination. Ferraro's sharply observed reading of these five works shows how such reenactments of immigrant mobility test the ideology of assimilation against the writer's experience. Ethnic Passages will refocus discussion of how literature addresses the American conflict between ethnic heritage and the greater opportunities of "mainstream" society.
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PS374.I48.F47 1993
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