Title Italian signs, American streets : the evolution of Italian American narrative / Fred L. Gardaphé.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS153.I8 G37 1996	Available	---

Description	241 pages ; 23 cm.
Series	New Americanists
	New Americanists.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index.
Contents	Narrative in the poetic mode -- The early mythic mode : from autobiography to autobiographical fiction -- The middle mythic mode : godfathers as heroes, variations on a figure -- The later mythic mode : reinventing ethnicity through the grandmother figure -- Narrative in the philosophic mode.
Subject	American literature -- Italian American authors -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- Italian American authors.
	American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Italian Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism.
	Italian Americans -- Biography.
	Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.
	Narration (Rhetoric)
	History.
	American literature -- Italian influences.
	American literature -- Italian influences.
	Italian Americans -- Intellectual life.
	Italian Americans -- Intellectual life.
	Italian Americans in literature.
	Italian Americans in literature.
	Ethnic groups in literature.
	Ethnic groups in literature.
Genre/Form	Autobiographies.
	Autobiographies.
Subject	Italianen.
	Letterkunde.
	Etnisch bewustzijn.
ISBN	0822317397 paperback acid-free paper
	9780822317395 paperback acid-free paper
	0822317303 acid-free paper
	9780822317302 acid-free paper