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Mobley, Agnieszka - red. nauk. ; Fondo, Blossom N. - red. nauk. ; Filipczak, Iwona - red. nauk.
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Italian-Americans ; inbetweenness ; American Dream ; heritage ; identity
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In the novel "Sometimes I Dream in Italian", Nina Ciresi envisions the complexity of Italian American selfhood through the reconstruction of the experiences of post-WW II Italian immigrants in the United States and of the generation that followed. The account of the character-narrator, Angel Lupo, a woman in her thirties, constitutes a patchwork of storylines that present primarily her plight as well as that of her parents and of her elder sister, Lina. ; The identity crisis accompanied by the sense of hopelessness, self-disintegration, and emotional vacuum that both sisters undergo in their adult lives stems from their attempt to reconcile their Italian cultural background with American ideals. Through multiple flashbacks, Angel exposes the internal conflicts engendered by the existence between anxiety-based Catholicism and American Dream aspirations. ; The characters` unending struggles for recognition attain multifaceted nature as they entail their attempts to define themselves and estimate their status in religious, familial, racial, and economic realms. ; These realms are accentuated by the Italia immigrant women`s conservative religiosity, the circumstances of Italian migration from Europe to America, socio-economic marginalization of Italian Americans reflected by Italian American neighborhoods, fixed gender roles, the inferiority complex of southern Italians over against northern Italians and its transmission to the American context, the overwhelming pressures of economic advancement, American ideals of beauty and success, racial discrimination of Italians Americans, the inter-racial conflicts between Italian Americans and Black Americans.
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Zielona Góra: Oficyna Wydawnicza Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego
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Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego: Seria Scripta Humana, tom 15