Crossing Ocean Parkway: Readings by an Italian American Daughter
A memoir in which the author, raised in a Brooklyn Italian-American community, searches for a place in the world through education, marriage, and class mobility. One street becomes the axis around which ethnicity, family, and ambition are mapped.
Work Information
Crossing Ocean Parkway means crossing the borders that shape a life.
Raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, the author moves back and forth between origin and scholarship through college, marriage, and domestic life. Ocean Parkway becomes a vivid route through the cultural boundaries and the feeling of upward aspiration.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Univ of Chicago Pr
- Published
- 1994-10-01
- Pages
- 187 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780226808291
- ISBN-10
- 0226808297
- Price
- 6626 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Social Sciences/Specific Demographics/Minority Studies
The author shares her experiences growing up Italian American and working class in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, among them longing for WASP success, academic accomplishments, losing her first child, and realizing that she will always be crossing Ocean Parkway to follow her dreams. UP.
Marianna De Marco Torgovnick , professor of English at Duke University, is author of the acclaimed Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives , also published by the University of Chicago Press. Marianna De Marco Torgovnick is professor of English at Duke University.
Reviews
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Every essay in Crossing Ocean Parkway rings true. Each one made me think of my own experiences in Brooklyn so long ago. The author's insights in reference to culture and expectations are right on the mark. I especially enjoyed the title essay. I also liked "The Godfather" and "Crossing Back." When I had completed the book, I felt as though I had crossed back to a time and place that I cherish.