| A Semiotic of Ethnicity: In (Re)Cognition of the Italian/American Writer Contributor(s): Tamburri, Anthony Julian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791439151 ISBN-13: 9780791439159 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Literary Criticism | American - Asian American |
| Dewey: 810.989 |
| LCCN: 97049661 |
| Series: Suny Italian/American Culture |
| Physical Information: (0.94 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy - Ethnic Orientation - Italian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Using semiotics as a theoretical foundation, this book reexamines the notion of the hyphenate writer. It argues for an analogous set of categories no longer chronologically or generationally based, but cognitively based, so that the traditionally considered "first-stage" or first-generation hyphenate writer now figures as an "expressive" writer who is not necessarily part of the immigrant or first American-born generations. He or she may actually belong to a later generation and write about his or her ethnicity with those characteristics more readily associated with the first-stage hyphenate writer. |