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

by Maria Laurino

ISBN: 9780393321951
ISBN10: 0393321959

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

by Maria Laurino

Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publish date: 05/01/2001
ISBN: 9780393321951
ISBN10: 0393321959

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Description: "Finally, Someone has had the intelligence and the honesty to go beyond the stereotypes . . . completely original and informative", David Chase, the creator of The Sopranos, wrote of Maria Laurino's work, which 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".

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