An exceptional book.
Voices in Italian Americana The volume offers examples for identity positions that provide a new view of modernity: a view that does not dovetail with the traditional view of modernity as the total sum of productivity, individuality, and consumption but rather presents a modernity where social inclusiveness and a shared sense of community ... Read moreare still possible. Moreover, the volume offers lucid and persuasive analyses of a wide array of material from diverse contexts and genres.
Americana Tracing the transnational arc of the twentieth-century United States, [Pardini] argues that this comparative reading offers a hybrid, transnational model of modernity with democratic implications for aesthetics, political economy, and social consciousness.
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