Son of Italy

D'Angelo, Pascal

ISBN 10: 1550710982 / ISBN 13: 9781550710984

Editore: Guernica Editions, 2003

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Riassunto:

In the original introduction to Pascal D'Angelo's Son of Italy, the renowned literary critic Carl Van Doren praised D'Angelo's autobiography as an impassioned story of his "enormous struggles against every disadvantage." In his narrative of his fruitless labor as a "pick and shovel" worker in America, D'Angelo, who immigrated from the Abruzzi region of Italy, describes the harsh, often inhumane working conditions that immigrants had to endure at the beginning of the twentieth century. However, interested in more than just material success in America, D'Angelo quit working as a laborer to become a poet. He began submitting his poetry to some of America's most prestigious literary and cultural journals until he finally succeeded. But in his quest for acceptance, D'Angelo unwittingly exposed the complexities of assimilation. Like the works of many other immigrant writers at the time, D'Angelo's autobiography is a criticism of some of the era's most important social themes. Kenneth Scambray's afterword is an analysis of the complexities of this multifaceted autobiographical voice, which has been read as a simplistic immigrant narrative of struggle and success. Guernica's edition of Son of Italy is its first English reprint since its original publication in 1924.

Informazioni sull'autore:

Pascal D'Angelo was a poet who immigrated to America as a child in 1910.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Son of Italy
Casa editrice: Guernica Editions
Data di pubblicazione: 2003
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket