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ISBN
9780226148366
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Algemeen
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18-06-2008
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Engels
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The University of Chicago Press
Auteur(s)
Marianna De Marco Torgovnick
Crossing Ocean Parkway
Marianna De Marco Torgovnick
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Growing
up
an
Italian-American
in
the
Bensonhurst
neighborhood
of
New
York
city,
Marianna
De
Marco
longed
for
college,
culture,
and
upward
mobility.
Her
daydreams
circled
around
WASP
(White
Anglo
Saxon
Protestant)
heroes
on
television—like
Robin
Hood
and
the
Cartwright
family—but
in
Brooklyn
she
never
encountered
any.
So
she
associated
moving
up
with
Ocean
Parkway,
a
street
that
divides
the
working-class
Italian
neighborhood
where
she
was
born
from
the
middle-class
Jewish
neighborhood
into
which
she
married.
This
book
is
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.Included
are
autobiographical
moments
interwoven
with
engrossing
interpretations
of
American
cultural
icons
from
Dr.
Dolittle
to
Lionel
Trilling,
The
Godfather
to
Camille
Paglia.
Her
experiences
allow
her
to
probe
the
cultural
tensions
in
America
caused
by
competing
ideas
of
individuality
and
community,
upward
mobility
and
ethnic
loyalty,
acquisitiveness
and spirituality.
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