Buried Caesars, and other secrets of Italian American writing

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"Robert Viscusi takes a comprehensive look at Italian American writing by exploring the connections between language and culture in Italian American experience and major literary texts. Italian immigrants, Viscusi argues, considered even their English to be a dialect of Italian, and therefore attempted to create an American English fully reflective of their historical, social, and cultural positions. This approach allows us to see Italian American purposes as profoundly situated in relation not only to American language and culture but also to Italian nationalist narratives in literary history as well as linguistic practice. Viscusi also situates Italian American writing within the "eccentric design" of American literature, and uses a multidisciplinary approach to read not only novels and poems, but also houses, maps, processions, videos, and other artifacts as texts."--Jacket.

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Series Statement

• SUNY series in Italian/American culture

Other Editions

• Buried Caesars, and other secrets of Italian American writingState University of New York Press2004-01-01
• Buried Caesars, and other secrets of Italian American writingState University of New York Press2005
• Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American WritingState University of New York Press2006-01-01
• Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American WritingState University of New York Press2006-01-01
• Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American WritingState University of New York Press2006-01-01