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Queen Calafia's Paradise
Kenneth Scambray
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California and the Italian American Novel
出版Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2007
主題Literary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / RegionalLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Culture, Race & Ethnicity
ISBN08386411729780838641170
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AQVNtMEFI08C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In Queen Calafia's Paradise, Ken Scambray explains that California offers Italian American protagonists a unique cultural landscape in which to define what it means to be an American and how Italian American protagonists embark on a voyage to reconcile their Old World heritage with modern American society. In Pasinetti's From the Academy Bridge (1970), Scambray analyzes the influence of Pasinetti's diverse California landscape upon his protagonist. Scambray argues that any reading of Madalena's Confetti for Gino (1959), set in San Diego's Little Italy, must take into account Madalena's homosexuality and his little known homosexual World War II novel, The Invisible Glass (1950). In his chapters covering John Fante's Los Angeles fiction, Scambray explores the Italian American's quest to locate a home in Southern California. Ken Scambray teaches courses in North American Italian literature and Los Angeles fiction at the University of La Verne.