Title Crossing Ocean Parkway / Marianna De Marco Torgovnick, with a new afterword

Published Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, [1996] ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (187 pages) Contents Part one. Crossing ocean parkway -- part two. Readings by an Italian American daughter 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject Torgovnick, Marianna, 1949- SUBJECT Torgovnick, Marianna, 1949- fast Subject 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. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. 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 SUBJECT Bensonhurst (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Bensonhurst Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226148366 022614836X

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