Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America
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Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America
Book Details
- Author
- Maria Laurino
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Essays
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780393321951
- ISBN-10
- 0393321959
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ISBN: 0393321959
Author: Laurino, Maria
Condition: New
"One of the best books about the immigrant experience in America....unique and gracefully written."-San Francisco Chronicle Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity. With "intelligence and honesty" (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 "with humor and wisdom."
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