To Hyphenate or Not to Hyphenate: The Italian-American Writer

by Anthony Julian Tamburri

Anthony Julian Tamburri examines the history of Italian/American writing and the concept of the hyphen as representative of the reluctance of the dominant culture to accept newcomers. He maintains that the hyphen in Italian-American creates a physical division between the two terms where the ideological gap should be filled Tamburri proposes instead to turn the hyphen forty-five Italian/American.

82 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1991

Reviews

[Marilena · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite an original idea...tilting the hyphen...The hyphen becoming the slash...
A book on ethnic literature (Italian/American) whose main original idea is focused at page 10+ pp. 43-51.
And I found out a lot of new names belonging to authors I didn't know about....
Good book.

[Vincent DiGirolamo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oh, my! Strayed onto a new track here. Had to avoid some deep potholes, but came away with about six good ideas. So that's a net plus.