Leaving Little Italy

Fred L. Gardaphe directs the American and Italian/American Studies Programs at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author and editor of many books, including Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative; Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer; and From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. A Historical Survey 1. The Southern Answer: Making Little Italys 2. Inventing Italian America 3. Mythologies of Italian America: From Little Italys to Suburbs Part II. Thematic Essays 4. Left Out: Three Italian American Writers of the 1930s 5. The Consequences of Class in Italian American Culture 6. Variations of Italian American Women's Autobiography 7. Criticism as Autobiography 8. We Weren't Always White: Race and Ethnicity in Italian American Literature 9. Linguine and Lust: Notes on Food and Sex in Italian American Culture Conclusion: Leaving Little Italy: Legacies Real and Imagined Notes Works Cited Index