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Summarize typology of immigrant:
1) at the lowest level, Son of Italy -- doesn't emigrate to pursue a dream, he runs away from a
nightmare.
2) The Italian. Urban, ready to be integrated, fighting to overcome the 'savage' hidden inside
Iconography of Italy and Italians in Italy. Americanization. Similarity with SON: dropping to the lowest point and re-emerging transformed
(alienation as the inevitable price?)
3) L'emigrante. America viewed from left-leaning, semi-anti-American, Italian culture. The topos of the 'anarchist'. Representation
of Americans. Picaresque narrative. Crime as the only way out of poverty.
4) Christ in Concrete. Son of Italy becomes a bricklayer, marries, has children and dies.
TEXTUALITY =
home, oppressive, static, hopeless.
work: dynamic, kinetic, forward looking
-- language and cultural milieu
-- language as mimesis. avant guard use of language. experimental.
-- symbolic narrative: everything that can possibly go wrong, does (Murphy's law).
-- God (anthropomorphic, Jesu Giuseppe Mari) and religion. Faith.
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