Download or read book Re-reading Italian Americana written by Anthony Julian Tamburri and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-reading Italian Americana broadens the scope of Italian/American literary criticism by investigating the work of six authors and the degree to which they successfully represent Italian Americana in their prose or poetry. Highlighting the work of Pietro di Donato, Mario Puzo, Luigi Barzini, Joseph Tusiani, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and Rina Ferrarelli, this book examines the current state of analysis dedicated to this topic and its reception both in the United States and in Italy.