Anthony Julian Tamburri, Florida Atlantic University

The past thirty years, especially, constitute a fertile period of any sort of cultural, critical discourse with the advent of Rose Basile Green’s study of the Italian/American novel. Until then, we could find a number of essays/reviews published sporadically, but no one had yet articulated a sustained discourse of this sort. Since the publication of Green’s study, we have witnessed an admirable number of sustained essays, though some seem a bit premature. This talk will address the current state of Italian/American critical discourse and how it interrogates the cultural productions of Italian America.