Voices Of Italian America

Author : Martino Marazzi
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823245727

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Voices of Italian America by Martino Marazzi Pdf

Voices of Italian America presents a top-rate authoritative study and anthology of the italian-language literature written and published in the United States from the heydays of the Great Migration (1880–1920) to the almost definitive demise of the cultural world of the first generation soon before and after World War II. The volume resurrects the neglected and even forgotten territory of a nationwide “Little Italy” where people wrote, talked, read, and consumed the various forms of entertainment mostly in their native Italian language, in a complex interplay with native dialects and surrounding American English. The anthological sections include excerpts from the ethnically tinged thrillers by Tuscan-born first-comer Bernardino Ciambelli, as well as the first short stories by Italian American women, set in the Gilded Age. The fiction of political activists such as Carlo Tresca coexists with the hardboiled autobiography of Italian American cop Mike Fiaschetti, fighting against the Mafia. Voices of Italian America presents new material by English-speaking classics such as Pietro di Donato and John Fante, and a selection of poetry by a great bilingual voice, the champion of the “masses” and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) poet Arturo Giovannitti, and by a lesserknown, self-taught, satirical versifier, Riccardo Cordiferro/Ironheart. Controversial documents on the difficult interracial relations between Italian Americans and African Americans live side by side with the first poignant chronicles from Ellis Island. This study sheds light on the “fabrication” of a new culture of immigrant origins—pliable, dynamic, constantly shifting and transforming itself—while focusing on stories, genres, rhythms, the “human touch” contributed by literature in its wider sense. Ultimately, through a rich sample of significant texts covering various aspects of the immigrant experience, Voices of Italian America offers the reader a literary history of Italian American culture.

Author : Peter L. Belmonte
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0738519073

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Italian Americans in World War II by Peter L. Belmonte Pdf

Discover the first-hand accounts and stories of Italian World War II Veterans who answered the call to serve their country, despite being deemed Enemy Aliens by their own government. At the beginning of World War II, Italian citizens living in the United States were referred to as Enemy Aliens. Yet hundreds of young Italian Americans flocked to recruiting stations, and over 500,000-perhaps as many as 1.5 million-served in the military during the war. Despite the difficulties they faced, including the possibility of having to fight against Italians, countless Italian Americans received decorations for bravery, fourteen of whom received the Medal of Honor. Italian Americans in World War II offers their stories, which, for the most part, have yet to be told. Belmonte interviewed almost 50 Italian-American veterans of World War II, from all branches and types of service. Stories of daily life, food, equipment, and training from soldiers, sailors, and airmen are captured. You'll read personal tales about how survivors of D-Day, Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Okinawa, and The Battle of the Bulge felt about entering combat. This fitting tribute also includes photographs from this period in history, bringing the men's stories to life.

Author : Mary Ellen Mancina-Batinich
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873516745

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Italian Voices by Mary Ellen Mancina-Batinich Pdf

Author : Martino Marazzi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0823246574

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Voices of Italian America by Martino Marazzi Pdf

This book presents for the first time in English a substantial choice of texts (excerpts from novels, short stories, memoirs, and poems), written in Italian by first-generation immigrants. Marazzi, a specialist in Italo-American cultural relations, introduces here the lives and works of a number of novelists, poets, activists, and journalists, who wrote for the myriad of newspapers published all around the country. There are authors of serialized novels (the "mysteries" of downtown Manhattan), N.Y.P.D. cops, and nationalists extolling the virtues of the Duce, as well as red anarchists, ladies, and "flappers" from the Italian American middle class, and proletarian rhetoricians.

Author : Italian American Historical Society of Rhode Island
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Italian Americans
ISBN : 0615715192

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Voices of Rhode Island's Italian Americans by Italian American Historical Society of Rhode Island Pdf

Author : Louis J. Gesualdi
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761858614

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The Italian/American Experience by Louis J. Gesualdi Pdf

The Italian/American Experience: A Collection of Writings represents a meaningful attempt to inform Italian Americans about their group’s varied experiences in America. This book, unlike many works on the Italian American experience, contains writings that explain why popular negative notions of Italian/American life are inaccurate. The Italian/American Experience lists a number of organizations and journals specializing in Italian American culture and provides brief descriptions of many leading researchers in the field of Italian American studies. This unique text also contains an annotated bibliography of key books that deal with the lives of Italians and Italian Americans. This collection of eleven works offers readers an in-depth view of Italian American culture and heritage.

Author : Richard M. Swiderski
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0879723653

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Voices by Richard M. Swiderski Pdf

This is a study of the St. Peter's Fiesta celebrated annually by the Italian, or better, Sicilian-American community of Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA. The study deals specifically with the fiesta that took place 25-28 June 1970.

Author : Francesco Durante,Robert Viscusi
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 1229 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780823260638

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Italoamericana by Francesco Durante,Robert Viscusi Pdf

Collected classic writings on, about, and from the formative years of the Italian-American experience, featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. To appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration to its settlement in America requires that one come to know how these immigrants saw their communities as colonies of the mother country. Edited with extraordinary skill, Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943 brings to an English-speaking audience a definitive collection of classic writings on, about, and from the formative years of the Italian-American experience. Originally published in Italian, this landmark collection of translated writings establishes a rich, diverse, and mature sense of Italian-American life by allowing readers to see American society through the eyes of Italian-speaking immigrants. Filled with the voices from the first generation of Italian-American life, the book presents a unique treasury of long-inaccessible writing that embodies a literary canon for Italian-American culture—poetry, drama, journalism, political advocacy, history, memoir, biography, and story—the greater part of which has never before been translated. Italoamericana introduces a new generation of readers to the “Black Hand” and the organized crime of the 1920s, the incredible “pulp” novels by Bernardino Ciambelli, Paolo Pallavicini, Italo Stanco, Corrado Altavilla, the exhilarating “macchiette” by Eduardo Migliaccio (Farfariello) and Tony Ferrazzano, the comedies by Giovanni De Rosalia, Riccardo Cordiferro’s dramas and poems, the poetry of Fanny Vanzi-Mussini and Eduardo Migliaccio. Edited by a leading journalist and scholar, Italoamericana presents an important but little-known, largely inaccessible Italian-language literary heritage that defined the Italian-American experience. Organized into five sections—”Annals of the Great Exodus,” “Colonial Chronicles,” “On Stage (and Off-Stage),” “Anarchists, Socialist, Fascists, Anti-Fascists,” and “Apocalyptic Integrated / Integrated Apocalyptic Intellectuals” —the volume distinguishes a literary, cultural, and intellectual history that engages the reader in all sorts of archaeological and genealogical work. “An addition to the great tradition of Italian-American literature and culture, this anthology of fiction, poetry, plays memoir and articles features the writing of Italians in America, writing from the “Little Italys” of the period, in their mother tongue, and fills a huge gap in the canon. A sophisticated, critical look at the writings of Italian immigrants to America across all genres, includes social and political commentary, a long labor of love for American editor Robert Viscusi . . . . A massive work of extraordinary power, that while scholarly and comprehensive, will have wide appeal.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Anthony Julian Tamburri
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 155753232X

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Italian/American Short Films and Music Videos by Anthony Julian Tamburri Pdf

This book constitutes a first look at the little-known phenomenon of the Italian/American short film. What becomes apparent is the conspicuous interest these members of the newer generation of Italian/American filmmakers exhibit vis-a-vis their ethnicity, be such films a fiction, a documentary, or a music video. Equally significant is the lens through which they see their Italian/American heritage. While the older generations concentrated more on the by now well-known thematics of immigration and organized crime, as well as the debunking thereof, these younger artists/performers of short films have added to the general theme of heritage, at various degrees, that of race, gender, and sexuality. Anthony Julian Tamburri is a professor of Italian at Florida Atlantic University, where he is also chair of the Department of Languages and Linguistics. He is the author of seven other books, including A Semiotic of Ethnicity: In (Re)cognition of the Italian/American Writer and To Hyphenate or Not to Hypenate: The Italian/American Writer: Or, An Other American? and is editor or co-editor of twelve collections, including the best-selling anthology From the Margin (1991/2000) and Screening Ethnicity (2002). He is a co-founding editor of Voices in Italian Americana: A Literary and Cultural Review.

Author : Mary Jo Bona
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438429977

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By the Breath of Their Mouths by Mary Jo Bona Pdf

In By the Breath of Their Mouths, Mary Jo Bona examines the oral uses of language and the liberating power of speech in Italian American writing, as well as its influences on generations of assimilated Italian American writers. Probing and wide-ranging, Bona's analysis reveals the lasting importance of storytelling and folk narrative, their impact on ethnic, working-class, and women's literatures, and their importance in shaping multiethnic literature. Drawing on a wide range of material from several genres, including oral biographies, fiction, film, poetry, and memoir, and grounded in recent theories of narrative and autobiography, postcolonial theory, and critical multiculturalism, By the Breath of Their Mouths is must reading for students in Italian American studies in particular and ethnic studies and multiethnic literature more generally.

Author : Luisa Del Giudice
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : America
ISBN : 9780230620032

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Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans by Luisa Del Giudice Pdf

This book introduces readers to a wide range of interpretations that take oral history and folklore as the premise with a focus on Italian and Italian American culture in disciplines such as history, ethnography, memoir, art, and music.

Author : Anthony Julian Tamburri
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 079143916X

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A Semiotic of Ethnicity by Anthony Julian Tamburri Pdf

Reexamines the notion of the "hyphenate writer," and offers a specific reading strategy that we may consider the Italian/American writer in the age of semiotics, poststructuralism, and the like.

Author : Maria Laurino
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393343519

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Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America by Maria Laurino Pdf

"One of the best books about the immigrant experience in America....unique and gracefully written."—San Francisco Chronicle Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity. With "intelligence and honesty" (Arizona Republic), she writes about guidos, bimbettes, and mammoni (mama's boys in Italy); examines the clashing aesthetics of Giorgio Armani and Gianni Versace; and unravels the etymology of southern Italian dialect words like gavone and bubidabetz. According to Frances Mayes, she navigates the conflicting forces of ethnicity "with humor and wisdom."

Author : Luciano J. Iorizzo,Salvatore Mondello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067695588

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The Italian Americans by Luciano J. Iorizzo,Salvatore Mondello Pdf

"(This is) is written with verve and conviction. It is the first attempt by professional historians to tell the story of Italian Americans from the 17th century to the present." --Arthur Mann, professor of American History, University of Chicago.

Author : Teresa Franco,Cecilia Piantanida
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527524552

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Echoing Voices in Italian Literature by Teresa Franco,Cecilia Piantanida Pdf

This collection of essays explores the reception of classics and translation from modern languages as two different, yet synergic, ways of engaging with literary canons and established traditions in 20th-century Italy. These two areas complement each other and equally contribute to shape several kinds of identities: authorial, literary, national and cultural. Foregrounding the transnational aspects of key concepts such as poetics, literary voice, canon and tradition, the book is intended for scholars and students of Italian literature and culture, classical reception and translation studies. With its two shifting focuses, on forms of classical tradition and forms of literary translation, the volume brings to the fore new configurations of 20th-century literature, culture and thought.