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Crossing Ocean Parkway

Marianna Torgovnick

出版	University of Chicago Press, 1996
主題	Biography & Autobiography / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralSocial Science / GeneralSocial Science / Customs & TraditionsSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / European American StudiesSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN	02268083009780226808307
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aGs4NXj8s50C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

Growing up an Italian-American in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York city, Marianna De Marco longed for college, culture, and upward mobility. Her daydreams circled around WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) heroes on television—like Robin Hood and the Cartwright family—but in Brooklyn she never encountered any. So she associated moving up with Ocean Parkway, a street that divides the working-class Italian neighborhood where she was born from the middle-class Jewish neighborhood into which she married. This book is Torgovnick's unflinching account of crossing cultural boundaries in American life, of what it means to be an Italian American woman who became a scholar and literary critic.

Included are autobiographical moments interwoven with engrossing interpretations of American cultural icons from Dr. Dolittle to Lionel Trilling, The Godfather to Camille Paglia. Her experiences allow her to probe the cultural tensions in America caused by competing ideas of individuality and community, upward mobility and ethnic loyalty, acquisitiveness and spirituality.