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Reexamines the notion of the "hyphenate writer," and offers a specific reading strategy that we may consider the Italian/American writer in the age of semiotics, poststructuralism, and the like.Using semiotics as a theoretical foundation, this book reexamines the notion of the hyphenate writer. It argues for an analogous set of categories no longer chronologically or generationally based, but cognitively based, so that the traditionally considered "first-stage" or first-generation hyphenate writer now figures as an "expressive" writer who is not necessarily part of the immigrant or first American-born generations. He or she may actually belong to a later generation and write about his or her ethnicity with those characteristics more readily associated with the first-stage hyphenate writer.
About the author
Anthony Julian Tamburri is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Purdue University. He is the author of
Of Saltimbanchi and Incendiari: Aldo Palazzeschi and Avant-Gardism in Italy; To Hyphenate or not to Hyphenate: the Italian/American Writer: Or, An Other American; and
Per una lettura retrospettiva. Prose giovanili di Aldo Palazzeschi. He is coeditor (with Paolo A. Giordano) of
Beyond the Margin: Readings in Italian Americana; (with Mary Jo Bona) of
Italian Americans and the Media; (with Paolo A. Giordano and Fred L. Gardaphe) of
From The Margin: Writings in Italian Americana; and editor of
Fuori. Essays By Italian/American Lesbians and Gays.
