Devils in Paradise: Writings on Post-emigrant CultureGuernica Editions, 1997 - 160 pages In these essays Pasquale Verdicchio stresses the need to view the cultural works of minority groups not solely from the perspective of their immigrant roots, but primarily as post-emigrant products. Through writings on diverse figures such as Antonio Gramsci, the Super Mario Brothers, or Spike Lee, and on subjects that range from literature to sculpture and photography, the author closes in on a possible intellectual synthesis for what might be considered the most complex question of this end of century: What is the identity and place of a minority individual? |
Contents
Subalterns Abroad | 7 |
was six feet tall I would have been Italian | 74 |
The Intellectual Ghetto | 90 |
Writing Out of Tongue | 109 |
Scattered Verses Between Naples and Canada | 139 |
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Page 4 - The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself as a product of the historical process to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.
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From Pioneer to Nomad: Essays on Italian North American Writing Leonardo Buonomo No preview available - 2003 |
Global Institutions and Development: Framing the World? Morten Bøås,Desmond McNeill Limited preview - 2004 |