Umbertina A Novel

Name: Umbertina A Novel
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ISBN: 9781558612051

ISBN-10: 155861205X

ISBN-13: 9781558612051

Edition: N/A

Authors: Helena Barolini, Edvige Giunta

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One of the first novels to explore Italian American women's experience and an acknowledged contemporary classic of Italian American literature, Umbertina tells the richly detailed story of four generations of women. The novel follows Umbertina and her descendants from her roots in a Calabrian village through a period of American assimilation, to Umbertina's great-granddaughters' efforts to resolve the dilemma of their Italian American identity. When first published in 1979, the Philadelphia Inquirer called it "an important novel for these times. . . . Through a dazzling interplay of American and Italian characters in both countries, Helen Barolini delineates the major concerns of all…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Publication date: 1/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.30" wide x 8.30" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English