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This study examines the third generation ethnic return to the homeland and its identity quest through myth, history, and storytelling as seen in late-twentieth-century novels. Through a comparison between Italian American and Greek American works, the book discusses contemporary ethnic cultures, histories, and the common painful identity issues.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: (De)Mystified Ethnic Space: Novels of the Seventies
Chapter 1 The Return to the Self and the Mystified Homeland: Daphne Athas's
Cora (1978)
Chapter 2 Ethnic Space, Umbertina Women (1979), and the Voyage to Self-
Definition
Part II: Persephone Returns Home: A Greek American and an Italian American Work of the Nineties
Chapter 3 Mythic Wanderings in Catherine Temma Davidson's The Priest
Fainted (1998)
Chapter 4 Italian-American Persephone in a Sicilian Setting: Susan Caperna
Lloyd's No Pictures in My Grave (1992)
Part III: Ethnic "History" and Storytelling: Voicing the Male
Chapter 5 Reared by Myth and Folklore: Stratis Haviaras's When the Tree Sings
(1979)
Chapter 6 Ethnic Fables of Social Justice: Tony Ardizzone's In the Garden of
Papa Santuzzu (1999)
Closings and Openings
Works Cited
About the author
By Theodora D. Patrona
