Crossing Ocean Parkway

Name: Crossing Ocean Parkway
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ISBN: 9780226808307

ISBN-10: 0226808300

ISBN-13: 9780226808307

Edition: 1996

Authors: Marianna De Marco Torgovnick

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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 American life, of what it means to be an Italian American woman who became a scholar and literary…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 187
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.86" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Preface



Crossing Ocean Parkway



On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst



Crossing Ocean Parkway



Slasher Stories



The College Way



Readings by an Italian American Daughter



Dr. Dolittle and the Acquisitive Life



The Paglia Principle



The Godfather as the World's Most Typical Novel



The Politics of the "We"


Epilogue