Imagining Italians
Imagining Italians
ISBN: 9780791457627
出版社: State Univ of New York Pr
出版年: 2003-7
页数: 320
定价: $ 33.84
装帧: Pap
内容简介
Explores changes in American attitudes toward Italy and Italians during a crucial period of U.S. immigration history. Integrating history, literary criticism, and cultural studies, Imagining Italians vividly tells the story of two voyages across the Atlantic: America's cultural pilgrimage to Italy and the Italian "racial odyssey" in America. It examines how American representations of Italy, Italians, and Italian Americans engaged with national debates over immigration, race, and national identity during the period 1880-1910. Joseph P. Cosco offers a close analysis of selected works by immigrant journalists Jacob Riis and Edward Steiner and American iconographic writers Henry James and Mark Twain. Exploring their Italian depictions in journalism. photos, travel narratives, and fiction, he rediscovers the forgotten Edward Steiner and offers fresh reading of Riis's reform efforts and photography, James's The Golden Bowl and The American Scene, and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson.