Intersecting diasporas : Italian Americans and allyship in US fiction /

"Examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Manizza Roszak, Suzanne, 1985- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Series:	SUNY series in Italian/American culture.
Subjects:	American fiction > Italian American authors > History and criticism. American fiction > Minority authors > History and criticism. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Italian Americans in literature. Identity politics in literature. United States > Ethnic relations > 20th century. American fiction. American fiction > Minority authors. Ethnic relations. United States. 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Representational roots. Romance, liberation, and peril : representing Italian identities from outside the diaspora(s)
Diasporic writers on Italian America. Sex and diaspora in the new "Italian novel" : James Baldwin and Bernard Malamud
Privileged Italians, poor Italians : Carolina De Robertis, Chang-rae Lee, and Italy in the Americas
Returning the favor : Italian Americans write back. "Mayan queens," secondhand suits, and toxic white masculinity : Fante and DeLillo
Off-white allies : writing Irish and Romani women's lives from Puzo to De Rosa
The limits of allyship : returning to Italy with A Ciambra.