Imagining Italians by Joseph P Cosco
Integrating history, literary criticism, and cultural studies, Imagining Italians vividly tells the story of two voyages across the Atlantic: America's cultural pilgrimage to Italy and the Italian racial odyssey in America. It examines how American representations of Italy, Italians, and Italian Americans engaged with national debates over immigration, race, and national identity during the period 1880-1910. Joseph P. Cosco offers a close analysis of selected works by immigrant journalists Jacob Riis and Edward Steiner and American iconographic writers Henry James and Mark Twain. Exploring their Italian depictions in journalism, photos, travel narratives, and fiction, he rediscovers the forgotten Edward Steiner and offers fresh readings of Riis's reform efforts and photography, James's The Golden Bowl and The American Scene, and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson.-
The Guitar and the New World
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Italian/American Fantastika
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Italian Americans on the Page
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Paper Boats
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Rebel Girl and the Godfather
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A Semiotic of Ethnicity
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Sense of Origins
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Intersecting Diasporas
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Through the Periscope
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Beyond Memory
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The Transatlantic Gaze
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The Music of the Inferno
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Leaving Little Italy
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Italian Trans Geographies
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Hopelessly Alien
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By the Breath of Their Mouths
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Religious Festive Practices in Boston's North End
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The Godfather and Sicily
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The Autobiography of a Language
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The Anarchist Bastard
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L Is for Lion
Joseph P. Cosco is Assistant Professor of English at Old Dominion University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780791457610 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791457613 |
| Title | Imagining Italians |
| Author | Joseph P Cosco |
| Series | Suny Series In Italian American Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2003-08-14 |
| Number of pages | 243 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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