This book focuses on the development of Italian American cultural identity throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries, shifting from a clearly identifiable, expressive form of ethnicity, defined as "emblematic," to a less evident, more fluid form, referred to as "latent." Italian and non-Italian American authors are taken into consideration.

Autorentext

Francesca de Lucia is an Italian and Swiss double national. She is currently teaching at Minzu University of China in Beijing, and has previously worked as an associate professor at Zhejiang Normal University. She holds a PhD from the University of Oxford. The focus of her research is on ethnicity and American identity in literature.

Inhalt

Emblematic Ethnicity: Fictions of the Italian American - Italian Americans from a Mainstream Perspective - Documenting Fascism and World War II in an Italian American Perspective - Fictions and Memoirs of the Italian American War Experience - Representations of Italian American Internment - Domestication of Ethnicity: The Fictions of Women - Italian Americans in Jewish and African American Cinema - Latent Ethnicity: Metamorphoses of Italian American Identity.