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Imagining Italians
Joseph P. Cosco
其他書名
The Clash of Romance and Race in American Perceptions, 1880-1910
出版SUNY Press, 2003-08-14
主題Social Science / Emigration & ImmigrationHistory / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / United States / 20th Century
ISBN07914576219780791457627
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JwbYvsoVVjYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Integrating history, literary criticism, and cultural studies, Imagining Italians vividly tells the story of two voyages across the Atlantic: America’s cultural pilgrimage to Italy and the Italian “racial odyssey” in America. It examines how American representations of Italy, Italians, and Italian Americans engaged with national debates over immigration, race, and national identity during the period 1880–1910. Joseph P. Cosco offers a close analysis of selected works by immigrant journalists Jacob Riis and Edward Steiner and American iconographic writers Henry James and Mark Twain. Exploring their Italian depictions in journalism, photos, travel narratives, and fiction, he rediscovers the forgotten Edward Steiner and offers fresh readings of Riis’s reform efforts and photography, James’s The Golden Bowl and The American Scene, and Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson.