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Marianna De Marco Torgovnick's unflinching account of crossing cultural boundaries in American life, of what it means to be an Italian American woman who became a scholar and literary critic.

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Crossing Ocean Parkway; on being White, female, and born in Bensonhurst; crossing Ocean Parkway; Slasher stories; the college way. Readings by an Italian American daughter; Dr. Dolittle and the acquisitive life; the Paglia principle; The Godfather as the world's most typical novel; the politics of the "We".

Crossing Ocean Parkway

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    A Paperback / softback by Marianna De Marco Torgovnick

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/01/1997
      ISBN13: 9780226808307, 978-0226808307
      ISBN10: 0226808300
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      Literary studies: general Cultural studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Marianna De Marco Torgovnick's unflinching account of crossing cultural boundaries in American life, of what it means to be an Italian American woman who became a scholar and literary critic.

      Table of Contents
      Crossing Ocean Parkway; on being White, female, and born in Bensonhurst; crossing Ocean Parkway; Slasher stories; the college way. Readings by an Italian American daughter; Dr. Dolittle and the acquisitive life; the Paglia principle; The Godfather as the world's most typical novel; the politics of the "We".

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