Crossing Ocean Parkway /

Growing up an Italian-American in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York city, Marianna De Marco longed for college, culture, and upward mobility. Her daydreams circled around WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) heroes on television-like Robin Hood and the Cartwright family-but in Brooklyn she nev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Torgovnick, Marianna, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, [1996]
Temas:
Torgovnick, Marianna, > 1949-
American literature > Italian American authors > History and criticism.
Italian Americans > New York (State) > New York > Social life and customs.
American literature > Italian influences.
Italian Americans > Intellectual life.
Italian American women > Biography.
Italian Americans in literature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine italienne > Histoire et critique.
Américains d'origine italienne > New York (État) > New York > Mœurs et coutumes.
Littérature américaine > Influence italienne.
Américains d'origine italienne > Vie intellectuelle.
Américaines d'origine italienne > Biographies.
Américains d'origine italienne dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature > Italian American authors
American literature > Italian influences
Italian American women
Italian Americans in literature
Italian Americans > Intellectual life
Italian Americans > Social life and customs
Manners and customs
Bensonhurst (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs.
New York (State) > New York
New York (State) > New York > Bensonhurst
collective biographies.
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Growing up an Italian-American in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York city, Marianna De Marco longed for college, culture, and upward mobility. Her daydreams circled around WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) heroes on television-like Robin Hood and the Cartwright family-but in Brooklyn she never encountered any. So she associated moving up with Ocean Parkway, a street that divides the working-class Italian neighborhood where she was born from the middle-class Jewish neighborhood into which she married. This book is Torgovnick's unflinching account of crossing cultural boundaries in Ameri.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (187 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780226148366
022614836X

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