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In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen
Dartmouth College Press, 2017 eISBN: 978-1-5126-0020-9 | Cloth: 978-1-5126-0018-6 | Paper: 978-1-5126-0019-3 Library of Congress Classification E184.I8P287 2017 Dewey Decimal Classification 305.800973
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In the Name of the Mother examines the cultural relationship between African American intellectuals and Italian American writers and artists, and how it relates to American blackness in the twentieth century. Samuele Pardini links African American literature to the Mediterranean tradition of the Italian immigrants and examines both against the white intellectual discourse that defines modernism in the West. This previously unexamined encounter offers a hybrid, transnational model of modernity capable of producing democratic forms of aesthetics, social consciousness, and political economy. This volume emphasizes the racial “in-betweenness” of Italian Americans rearticulated as “invisible blackness,” a view that enlarges and complicates the color-based dimensions of American racial discourse. This strikingly original work will interest a wide spectrum of scholars in American Studies and the humanities. See other books on: African | Italian Americans | Modernity | Mother | Name See other titles from Dartmouth College Press |
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In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
Dartmouth College Press, 2017
eISBN: 978-1-5126-0020-9
Cloth: 978-1-5126-0018-6
Paper: 978-1-5126-0019-3
eISBN: 978-1-5126-0020-9
Cloth: 978-1-5126-0018-6
Paper: 978-1-5126-0019-3
In the Name of the Mother examines the cultural relationship between African American intellectuals and Italian American writers and artists, and how it relates to American blackness in the twentieth century. Samuele Pardini links African American literature to the Mediterranean tradition of the Italian immigrants and examines both against the white intellectual discourse that defines modernism in the West. This previously unexamined encounter offers a hybrid, transnational model of modernity capable of producing democratic forms of aesthetics, social consciousness, and political economy. This volume emphasizes the racial “in-betweenness” of Italian Americans rearticulated as “invisible blackness,” a view that enlarges and complicates the color-based dimensions of American racial discourse. This strikingly original work will interest a wide spectrum of scholars in American Studies and the humanities.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
