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Straight out of Brooklyn
Jacobson, Joanne | March 6, 1995 issue

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The article discusses the book Crossing Ocean Parkway: Readings by an Italian American Daughter, by Marianna De Marco Torgovnick. The book constitutes both Marianna Torgovnick's subject and her task. Her essay collection is, in part, the autobiography of a woman who crosses Brooklyn, New York City from the Italian working-class neighborhood of Bensonhurst, New York City to the middle-class Jewish neighborhood on the other side of Ocean Parkway and, eventually, to the academy; from "Italian American daughter" to "reader." The book is, at the same time, a kind of formal experiment, which crosses the boundaries between literary criticism, cultural criticism and autobiography, between personal history and intellectual life.

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CROSSING Ocean Parkway (Book); DE Marco Torgovnick, Marianna; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; ITALIAN Americans; INTELLECTUAL life; CULTURE; LITERATURE
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