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Author / Creator:	Torgovnick, Marianna, 1949-
Imprint:	Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, [1996] ©1996
Description:	1 online resource (187 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Torgovnick, Marianna, -- 1949- Torgovnick, Marianna, -- 1949- American literature -- Italian American authors -- History and criticism. Italian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs. American literature -- Italian influences. Italian Americans -- Intellectual life. Italian American women -- Biography. Italian Americans in literature. American literature -- Italian American authors. American literature -- Italian influences. Italian American women. Italian Americans in literature. Italian Americans -- Intellectual life. Italian Americans -- Social life and customs. Manners and customs. Bensonhurst (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. New York (State) -- New York. New York (State) -- New York -- Bensonhurst. Biographies. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11207425

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ISBN:	9780226148366 022614836X 0226808300 9780226808307
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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 Ameri.
Other form:	Print version: Torgovnick, Marianna, 1949- Crossing Ocean Parkway 0226808300

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