A Semiotic of Ethnicity: In (Re)Cognition of the Italian/American Writer

by Anthony Julian Tamburri

Book Overview

Using semiotics as a theoretical foundation, this book reexamines the notion of the hyphenate writer. It argues for an analogous set of categories no longer chronologically or generationally based, but cognitively based, so that the traditionally considered "first-stage" or first-generation hyphenate writer now figures as an "expressive" writer who is not necessarily part of the immigrant or first American-born generations. He or she may actually...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791439151
• ISBN13: 9780791439159
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.