Rethinking Italian American Literary Criticism: New Ideas for a Reconsideration.

In [9], an American transplanted in Italy, William Boelhower, published his I Immigrant Autobiography in the United States i , an early attempt at classifying Italian American literature, specifically autobiography. Graph It is with this historico-critical backdrop that the I Italian American Review i sought essays dedicated to a rethinking and rearticulation of Italian American literary criticism; one result being voices from both the United States and Italy. The history of Italian American literary criticism is a problematic phenomenon for a variety of reasons. [Extracted from the article]