{"product_id":"crossing-ocean-parkway-9780226808307","title":"Crossing Ocean Parkway","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrowing up an Italian-American in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York city  Marianna De Marco longed for college  culture  and upward mobility. Her daydreams circled around WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) heroes on televisionlike Robin Hood and the Cartwright familybut in Brooklyn she never encountered any. So she associated moving up with Ocean Parkway  a street that divides the working-class Italian neighborhood where she was born from the middle-class Jewish neighborhood into which she married. This book is Torgovnicks unflinching account of crossing cultural boundaries in American life  of what it means to be an Italian American woman who became a scholar and literary critic.  Included are autobiographical moments interwoven with engrossing interpretations of American cultural icons from Dr. Dolittle to Lionel Trilling  The Godfather to Camille Paglia. Her experiences allow her to probe the cultural tensions in America caused by competing ideas of individuality and community  upward mobility and ethnic loyalty  acquisitiveness and spirituality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953308327989,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226808300","price":20.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226808307.jpg?v=1788184707","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/crossing-ocean-parkway-9780226808307","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}