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Black and Italian Cultures in the Making of Multiethnic America: The Literary Relationships Between Italian Americans and African Americans in the Wor

Black and Italian Cultures in the Making of Multiethnic America: The Literary Relationships Between Italian Americans and African Americans in the Wor

Reichardt, Dagmar
Von Kulessa, Rotraud
Maeder, Costantino

Hardcover

Series: Transcultural Studies - Interdisciplinary Literature and Hum, Book 19

Literary CriticismAnthropologyGeneral Latin American History

ISBN10: 3631910258
ISBN13: 9783631910252
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Apr 27 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This study makes other voices the point of departure, aiming to find common ground amidst polarized assumptions about the relationship between Italian Americans and African Americans. Through the contemporary literary works of three authors - Kym Ragusa's memoir The Skin Between Us, Mari Bucci Bush's novel Sweet Hope, and Louisa Calio's poetry collection Journey to the Heart Waters - the Italian-African American micro-history of these ethnic minorities, is revisited and analyzed. Thus, transcultural shades and cross-over synergies emerge, shedding light on a literary mixture all too often overlooked in mainstream historical accounts so far.

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