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PublisherDartmouth College

ISBN-101512600199

ISBN-139781512600193

eBay Product ID (ePID)221961665

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Number of Pages280 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameIn the Name of the Mother : Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen

Publication Year2017

SubjectAmerican / African American, Emigration & Immigration, Popular Culture, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

TypeTextbook

AuthorSamuele F. S. Pardini

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight16.1 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2016-020959

Reviews"Tracing the transnational arc of the twentieth-century United States, [Pardini] argues that this comparative reading offers a "hybrid, transnational model of modernity" with democratic implications for aesthetics, political economy, and social consciousness.", The volume offers examples for identity positions that provide a new view of modernity: a view that does not dovetail with the traditional view of modernity as the total sum of productivity, individuality, and consumption but rather presents a modernity where social inclusiveness and a shared sense of community are still possible. Moreover, the volume offers lucid and persuasive analyses of a wide array of material from diverse contexts and genres.

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal305.800973

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments * Introduction * New World, Old Woman: Or, Modernity Upside Down * Rochester, Sicily: The Political Economy of Italian American Life and the Encounter with Blackness * Structures of Invisible Blackness: Racial Difference, (Homo)Sexuality, and Italian American Identity in African American Literature during Jim Crow * In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Gun: Modernity as the Gangster * In the Name of the Mother: The Other Italian American Modernity * The Dago and the Darky: Staging Subversion * Notes * Bibliography * Index

SynopsisIn 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.

LC Classification NumberE184.I8P287 2017