Theodora D. Patrona

Return Narratives (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781683937838
• Artikelnr.: 74830897

Autorenporträt

Theodora D. Patrona taught at the Aristotle University and the Technological Institute of Crete in Heraklion.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: (De)Mystified Ethnic Space: Novels of
the Seventies Chapter 1 The Return to the Self and the Mystified Homeland:
Daphne Athas's Cora (1978) Chapter 2 Ethnic Space, Umbertina Women (1979),
and the Voyage to Self- Definition Part II: Persephone Returns Home: A
Greek American and an Italian American Work of the Nineties Chapter 3
Mythic Wanderings in Catherine Temma Davidson's The Priest Fainted (1998)
Chapter 4 Italian-American Persephone in a Sicilian Setting: Susan Caperna
Lloyd's No Pictures in My Grave (1992) Part III: Ethnic "History" and
Storytelling: Voicing the Male Chapter 5 Reared by Myth and Folklore:
Stratis Haviaras's When the Tree Sings (1979) Chapter 6 Ethnic Fables of
Social Justice: Tony Ardizzone's In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu (1999)
Closings and Openings Works Cited