Leaving little Italy: essaying Italian American culture

LEAVING LITTLE ITALY......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Part I: A Historical Survey......Page 22
1. The Southern Answer Making Little Italys......Page 24
2. Inventing Italian America......Page 34
3. Mythologies of Italian America: From Little Italys to Suburbs......Page 58
Part II: Thematic Essays......Page 72
4. Left Out: Three Italian American Writers of the 1930s......Page 74
5. The Consequences of Class in Italian American Culture......Page 88
6. Variations of Italian American Women’s Autobiography......Page 104
7. Criticism as Autobiography......Page 122
8. We Weren’t Always White: Race and Ethnicity in Italian American Literature......Page 144
9. Linguine and Lust: Notes on Food and Sex in Italian American Culture......Page 158
Conclusion: Leaving Little Italy: Legacies Real and Imagined......Page 172
4. Left Out: Three Italian American Writers of the 1930s......Page 184
8. We Weren’t Always White: Race and Ethnicity in Italian American Literature......Page 186
Works Cited......Page 188
B......Page 206
C......Page 207
D......Page 208
F......Page 209
H......Page 210
K......Page 211
M......Page 212
P......Page 213
S......Page 214
V......Page 215
Z......Page 216