Theodora D. Patrona

Return Narratives

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the third generation ethnic return to the homeland and its identity quest through myth, history, and storytelling as seen in late-twentieth-century novels. Through a comparison between Italian American and Greek American works, the book discusses contemporary ethnic cultures, histories, and the common painful identity issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781611479942
• ISBN-10: 1611479940
• Artikelnr.: 48330194

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 3Mythic Wanderings in Catherine Temma Davidson's The PriestFainted
(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