Return Narratives: Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature

Theodora D. Patrona

doi:10.5771/9781611479959

Zusammenfassung

This book is a comparative study of six Italian American and Greek American literary works written in the three last decades of the 20th century and examined in pairs. Based on the common theme of the authors' return, either metaphorical or literal to the country of origin and its culture, Return Narratives explores the common motifs of mythology, ritual, and storytelling where the third generation writers resort to in their quest for self-definition. With a common historical and cultural background in the old neighboring countries, Greece and Italy, and a similar reception in the new world facilitating a comparative approach, the ethnic writers of the two literatures, clearly envisage ethnic space as a site of resilience and empowerment.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Auflage: 1/2017
Copyrightjahr: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-61147-994-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-61147-995-9
Verlag: University Press Copublishing, Lanham
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 175
Produkttyp: Monographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. Contents Kein Zugriff
2. Acknowledgments Kein Zugriff
3. Introduction Kein Zugriff
1. 1 The Return to the Self and the Mystified Homeland Kein Zugriff
2. 2 Ethnic Space, Umbertina (1979) Women, and the Voyage to Self-Definition Kein Zugriff
1. 3 Mythic Wanderings in Catherine Temma Davidson’s The Priest Fainted (1998) Kein Zugriff
2. 4 Italian American Persephone in a Sicilian Setting Kein Zugriff
1. 5 Reared by Myth and Folklore Kein Zugriff
2. 6 Ethnic Fables of Social Justice by Myth and Folklore Kein Zugriff
Closings and Openings Kein Zugriff Seiten 153 - 156
Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 157 - 170
Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 171 - 174
About the Author Kein Zugriff Seiten 175 - 175