Date of Award
5-2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Degree Program
English
Department
English
Major Professor
Steeby, Elizabeth
Second Advisor
Piano, Doreen
Third Advisor
Lackey, Kris
Abstract
Giuseppe Emilio Rocconi's life narrative, The Story of My Life (1958), represents the hardships of immigration and assimilation through meditations on home, family, and religion. I read his narrative in contrast with white elite narratives that express nostalgia for sharecropping and the segregation era. I see his narrative as a reflection upon the costs of integrating into the white patriarchal economy and his sense of being neither fully Italian nor fully American.
Recommended Citation
Santucci, Bethany, ""Against My Destiny": Reading an Italian Immigrant's Memoir in the Early 20th-century South" (2011). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1344.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1344
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