In the Name of the Mother Italian Americans, African Americans, and - Modernity From Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springstee

In the Name of the Mother examines the cultural relationship between African American intellectuals and Italian American writers and artists, and how it relates to American blackness in the twentieth century. Samuele Pardini links African American literature to the Mediterranean tradition of the Italian immigrants and examines both against the white intellectual discourse that defines modernism in the West. This previously unexamined encounter offers a hybrid, transnational model of modernity capable of producing democratic forms of aesthetics, social consciousness, and political economy. This volume emphasizes the racial ¿in-betweenness¿ of Italian Americans rearticulated as ¿invisible blackness,¿ a view that enlarges and complicates the color-based dimensions of American racial discourse. This strikingly original work will interest a wide spectrum of scholars in American Studies and the humanities. Zusammenfassung A bracingly original dialogue on modernity! class! and difference in the 20th century

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• Authors: Samuel Pardini, Samuele F. S. Pardini, Samuele F. S. Pardini
• Publisher: University press new england
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9781512600193
• ISBN: 978-1-5126-0019-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Re-Mapping the Transnational: Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies; Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies