Ethnicity

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Chapter 26 - Ethnicity

DeLillo and Italian America

from Part VI - Social and Cultural Constructions

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2022

John Paul Russo

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Jesse Kavadlo

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Jesse Kavadlo: Affiliation:
Maryville University of Saint Louis, Missouri

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Summary

While Don DeLillo is an Italian American and son of immigrants, his fiction often has an ambivalent relationship with his biographical detail. He does not claim to be, and is seldom interpreted as, an ethnic writer.

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Don DeLillo short stories New York Italian Americans writers

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Information: Don DeLillo In Context , pp. 252 - 259

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