Description
Literary Nonfiction. History. Italian American Studies. "Migration teaches that history changes, that values are never supra-historical, that what applied once in time (say: antiquity) or space (say: the home country), perhaps no longer applies, or would actually gain from being modified, from being brought up to date to confront problems that were unthought-of, unimaginable a generation, a century ago. Migrating on the other hand is the best image for an existence profoundly informed by change, transit, uncertainty, fear at times, but also freedom, dreams, excitement, fueling a need to discover... This condition which, beyond economic fears and personal hardships is marked by a profound inner rift, an unnarratable experience... but one which somehow must be told.
Again. And again"—from the Introduction
Author Bio
Peter Carravetta is the Alfonse M. D'Amato Professor in Italian and Italian American Studies at Stony Brook University. Founding editor of DIFERENTIA (1986-1999), bilingual poet and translator, he authored eight books of criticism, including Prefaces to the Diaphora (1991), Del postmoderno (2009), The Elusive Hermes: Method, Discourse, Interpreting (2013).
Author City: WHITESTONE, NY USA