Benedetta in Guysterland: A Liquid Novel (Prose Series)
An experimental novel that unsettles myths of Italian-American identity and mafia stereotypes while probing cultural fracture and inheritance.
novelimmigrant experienceexperimental fiction
Work Information
It shifts and re-reads the mythologized image of Italian America.
The book keeps a strong narrative drive while using leaps in voice and cultural reference to resist fixed identity. Humor and unease coexist throughout.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Guernica Editions
- Published
- 1993-08-01
- Pages
- 160 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 11.43 x 2.03 x 17.78 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780920717882
- ISBN-10
- 0920717888
- Price
- 2499 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Literary
Incorporating America's obsessive fascination with the 'mafia', sex and violence, Benedetta in Guysterland tells the story of America's relationship with Italy and debunks the traditional stereotype of the Italian/American gangster... The story told here is about change and the breaking away from roots that happens to all cultural border crossers.
Giose Rimanelli is SUNY-Albany Professor Emeritus.