Traveling Italy, Writing America Andrea Geiger Dania Gurira

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Traveling Italy, Writing America Andrea Geiger Dania GuriraIlluminates why Italy continues to captivate the American imagination, connecting classic literature to contemporary memoirs and popular media that still view Italy as a site of transformation, desire, and reflection Traveling Italy, Writing America argues that the American idea of Italy, at once sunny and dark, refined and excessive, has played a crucial role in shaping both U. S. national identity and Italian American literary self fashioning. The