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

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

Patrona, Theodora D.

Hardcover

Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Italian Studies

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1611479940
ISBN13: 9781611479942
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: Aug 29 2017
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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.

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