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 ...
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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.
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Add this copy of Voices of Italian America: a History of Early Italian to cart. $5.00, good condition, Sold by HPB-Red rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Fordham University Press.
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Add this copy of Voices of Italian America: a History of Early Italian to cart. $27.99, good condition, Sold by Bookmarc's rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from La Porte, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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Good in Very Good jacket. CD4-A hardcover book in good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, some scattered light scratches, rubbing and scuffing, light tanning and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and dents, wrinkling on the spine edges, some scattered underlining and brackets, dog-eared page, light tanning and shelf wear. Translated by Ann Goldstein. 9.5"x6.5", 343 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. An unprecedented exodus that brought millions of Italians to the New World, the Great Migration has been studied until now mainly in its historical, social, and ethnographical dimensions. Scholars of literature, on the contrary, have neglected this field, despite the rich and varied literary fabric to be found in the teeming Little Italies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What is presented here is thus the first detailed history of that forgotten territory. This book presents also for the first time in English a substantial choice of texts (excerpts from novels, short stories, memoirs, and poems), mostly 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. Their personal stories testify to a wider collective novel focused around the myth and the dream of "making America." Through their pages and their critical presentation, the reader is brought to discover the literary dignity of this production, clearly linked to the popular roots of nineteenth-century Italian culture, but at the same time confronted with the traumas and the different realities of a new society. The main themes are voiced with characteristic intensity-immigration, labor conditions, family ties, the lure and snares of the big city, its multiethnicity. Over a period of more than half a century, we witness the rise and demise of an Italian-speaking literature in the United States, which will then lead the way to the new generation, most notably represented by John Fante and Pietro di Donato. On the whole, Voices of Italian America gives the reader a key to the understanding of a full-pledged civilization, still underappreciated in the United States and ignored in Italy by the elitism of the literary milieu.
Add this copy of Voices of Italian America: a History of Early Italian to cart. $31.46, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Fordham University Press.
