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Author Serra, Ilaria.

Title Value of Worthless Lives : Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies
Published Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (265 pages)
Contents Title Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Ecstatic and Intolerable -- Chapter 2: Nietzsche Slain -- Chapter 3: The Labyrinth -- Chapter 4: The Cross -- Chapter 5: The Wounded Hands of Bataille -- Conclusion: Bataillean Meditations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary In this innovative portrait of the Italian-American experience, Ilaria Serra looks closely at 58 representative works written during the high tide of Italian migration
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Autobiography.
Immigrants -- United States -- Biography
Italians -- United States -- Biography
Italian Americans -- Biography
Working class -- United States -- Biography
Women -- United States -- Biography
Autobiographies as Topic
autobiography (genre)
Autobiography
Immigrants
Italian Americans
Italians
Women
Working class
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780823247752
0823247759