Last Modified

• March 21, 2019

Creator

• Schultz, K. Nicole
  • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English and Comparative Literature

Abstract

• As Italian American writers, Anna Monardo and Tony Ardizzone explore the connection between language and the hybrid identity of Italian Americans. Ardizzone's chosen mode of narration is the folktale. He both uses old ones and creates his own, telling them in such a way that one sees the language and cultural heritage of the immigrants. In Italy, these folktales can be found in Italo Calvino's Fiabe Italiane. By reading Calvino, one can see how Ardizzone has mined and used the oral traditions of his ancestors. Monardo uses the acquisition of the Italian language of her protagonist as a widening of social space in a Bildungsroman novel that takes place two generations after the large immigration wave. This examination of the Italian language looks at its relation to Italy, to America, and to the confluence of the two in social, historical, and political contexts.

Date of publication

• May 2006

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.17615/czwa-fr29

Resource type

• Masters Thesis

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Advisor

• Rao, Ennio

Degree granting institution

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language

• English

Access

• Open access

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