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A Circular Journey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: US : Fordham University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (220 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823226177
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Circular JourneyDDC classification:
  • 818.5409
LOC classification:
  • PS3552.A725 -- Z46 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Part I: Home -- 2004 James Street -- My Mother's Wedding Day -- Zio Filippo at Summer Camp -- The Spinsters of Taos -- Part II: Abroad -- A Fish Tale -- Montale and Mosca in a Train -- Sicily, Light and Dark -- A Classical Excursion -- Neruda vs. Sartre at the Sea -- Souvenirs of Venice -- Being at Bellagio -- Part III: Return -- Shutting the Door on Someone -- Paris in the Boondocks -- A Story of Rings -- A Circular Journey.
Summary: Novelist, critic, pioneer voice in Italian-American literature, Helen Barolini has tracked the intersections of ethnic identity, generations, and art in a remarkable body of work. Here, she brings together essays both personal and critical in a revealing self-portraitGfrom her youth in an Italian immigrant home in upstate New York to a life at home and abroad in two cultures. From its title essayGa classic chronicle of rediscovering a cultureGto explorations of Italy as a creative springboard, this book is a circling of both worlds as they touched and merged in her journey.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Part I: Home -- 2004 James Street -- My Mother's Wedding Day -- Zio Filippo at Summer Camp -- The Spinsters of Taos -- Part II: Abroad -- A Fish Tale -- Montale and Mosca in a Train -- Sicily, Light and Dark -- A Classical Excursion -- Neruda vs. Sartre at the Sea -- Souvenirs of Venice -- Being at Bellagio -- Part III: Return -- Shutting the Door on Someone -- Paris in the Boondocks -- A Story of Rings -- A Circular Journey.

Novelist, critic, pioneer voice in Italian-American literature, Helen Barolini has tracked the intersections of ethnic identity, generations, and art in a remarkable body of work. Here, she brings together essays both personal and critical in a revealing self-portraitGfrom her youth in an Italian immigrant home in upstate New York to a life at home and abroad in two cultures. From its title essayGa classic chronicle of rediscovering a cultureGto explorations of Italy as a creative springboard, this book is a circling of both worlds as they touched and merged in her journey.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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