Format:
Online Ressource (187 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780226148366
,
022614836X
Content:
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 Ameri
Content:
Part one. Crossing ocean parkway -- part two. Readings by an Italian American daughter.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
0226808300
Additional Edition:
9780226808307
Additional Edition:
Print version Crossing Ocean Parkway
Language:
English
Keywords:
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