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- Author: Maria Laurino
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 2001
- Pages: 224
- ISBN: 9780393343519
- ISBN-10: 0393343510
- ISBN-13: 9780393343519
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu
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Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity. With "intelligence and honesty" (Arizona Republic), she writes about guidos, bimbettes, and mammoni (mama's boys in Italy); examines the clashing aesthetics of Giorgio Armani and Gianni Versace; and unravels the etymology of southern Italian dialect words like gavone and bubidabetz. According to Frances Mayes, she navigates the conflicting forces of ethnicity "with humor and wisdom."
- Author: Maria Laurino
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 2001
- Pages: 224
- ISBN: 9780393343519
- ISBN-10: 0393343510
- ISBN-13: 9780393343519
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity. With "intelligence and honesty" (Arizona Republic), she writes about guidos, bimbettes, and mammoni (mama's boys in Italy); examines the clashing aesthetics of Giorgio Armani and Gianni Versace; and unravels the etymology of southern Italian dialect words like gavone and bubidabetz. According to Frances Mayes, she navigates the conflicting forces of ethnicity "with humor and wisdom."
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