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Growing up an Italian American in New York, Marianna De Marco associated moving up with Ocean Parkway, a street that divides the working-class Italian neighbourhood from the middle-class Jewish neighbourhood into which she married. This book is her account of crossing cultural boundaries.

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Preface Pt. 1: Crossing Ocean Parkway 1: On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst 3 2: Crossing Ocean Parkway 19 3: Slasher Stories 35 4: The College Way 59 Pt. 2: Readings by an Italian American Daughter 5: Dr. Dolittle and the Acquisitive Life 75 6: The Paglia Principle 91 7: The Godfather as the World's Most Typical Novel 109 8: The Politics of the "We" 137 Epilogue

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 10/17/1994 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226808291, 978-0226808291
      ISBN10: 0226808297
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      Biography: adventurers and explorers ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: general Cultural studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Growing up an Italian American in New York, Marianna De Marco associated moving up with Ocean Parkway, a street that divides the working-class Italian neighbourhood from the middle-class Jewish neighbourhood into which she married. This book is her account of crossing cultural boundaries.

      Table of Contents
      Preface Pt. 1: Crossing Ocean Parkway 1: On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst 3 2: Crossing Ocean Parkway 19 3: Slasher Stories 35 4: The College Way 59 Pt. 2: Readings by an Italian American Daughter 5: Dr. Dolittle and the Acquisitive Life 75 6: The Paglia Principle 91 7: The Godfather as the World's Most Typical Novel 109 8: The Politics of the "We" 137 Epilogue

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