| After Identity: Migration, Critique, Italian American Culture Contributor(s): Carravetta, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 159954072X ISBN-13: 9781599540726 Publisher: Bordighera Press OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2017 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Social Science | Popular Culture - History | Europe - Italy |
| Dewey: 973.045 |
| LCCN: 2016960636 |
| Series: Saggistica |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6" W x 9" (0.96 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Literary Nonfiction. History. Italian American Studies. Migration teaches that history changes, that values are never supra-historical, that what applied once in time (say: antiquity) or space (say: the home country), perhaps no longer applies, or would actually gain from being modified, from being brought up to date to confront problems that were unthought-of, unimaginable a generation, a century ago. Migrating on the other hand is the best image for an existence profoundly informed by change, transit, uncertainty, fear at times, but also freedom, dreams, excitement, fueling a need to discover... This condition which, beyond economic fears and personal hardships is marked by a profound inner rift, an unnarratable experience... but one which somehow must be told. Again. And again--from the Introduction |
Contributor Bio(s): Carravetta, Peter: - Peter Carravetta is the Alfonse M. D'Amato Professor in Italian and Italian American Studies at Stony Brook University. Founding editor of DIFERENTIA (1986-1999), bilingual poet and translator, he authored eight books of criticism, including Prefaces to the Diaphora (1991), Del postmoderno (2009), The Elusive Hermes: Method, Discourse, Interpreting (2013). |