Crossing Ocean Parkway : readings by an Italian American daughter /

Crossing Ocean Parkway : readings by an Italian American daughter / Marianna De Marco Torgovnick.

Growing up as an Italian American in Bensonhurst, Marianna De Marco longed for college, culture, and upward mobility. Her daydreams circled around WASP heroes on television - like Robin Hood and the Cartwright family - but in Brooklyn she never encountered any. So she associated moving up with Ocean...

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Main Author: Torgovnick, Marianna, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Subjects:
Torgovnick, Marianna, > 1949-
American literature > Italian American authors > History and criticism.
Italian Americans > New York (State) > New York > Social life and customs.
American literature > Italian influences.
Italian Americans > Intellectual life.
Italian American women > Biography.
Italian Americans in literature.
Bensonhurst (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs.

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Call Number: PS153.I8 T67 1994
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