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Buried Caesars and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing.(Book review)

From: MELUS  |  Date: 6/22/2006  |  Author: Bona, Mary Jo

Buried Caesars and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing. Robert Viscusi. Albany: State U of New York P, 2006. xxii + 272 pages. $65 cloth.

As much a cultural as a literary history of Italian Americans, Buried Caesars beautifully unearths the ideological underpinnings informing the writings of Italian Americans from the late nineteenth century to the millennium. The "Buried Caesars" of Robert Viscusi's title refer variously to how Italian Americans in society and in ...

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