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9780393321951

Were You Always an Italian: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America

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  • ISBN13:

    9780393321951

  • ISBN10:

    0393321959

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-06-17
  • Publisher: INGRAM

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Summary

Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity. With "intelligence and honesty" ( Arizona Republic ), she writes about guidos, bimbettes, and mammoni (mama's boys in Italy); examines the clashing aesthetics of Giorgio Armani and Gianni Versace; and unravels the etymology of southern Italian dialect words like gavone and bubidabetz . According to Frances Mayes, she navigates the conflicting forces of ethnicity "with humor and wisdom."

Table of Contents

Beginnings
13(3)
Scents
16(14)
Tainted Soil
30(24)
Clothes
54(23)
Rome
77(23)
Words
100(21)
Bensonhurst
121(35)
Faith
156(19)
Work
175(13)
Ancestors
188(27)
Beginnings
215(2)
Acknowledgments 217

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