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An amulet of Greek earth : generations of immigrant folk culture / Helen Papanikolas.
LIBRA E184.G7 P38 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Papanikolas, Helen, 1917-2004.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greek Americans--Social life and customs.
- Greek Americans.
- Immigrants--United States--Social life and customs.
- Immigrants.
- Greek Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Greek Americans--Cultural assimilation.
- Folklore--Greece.
- Folklore.
- Manners and customs.
- Greece.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 316 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Ancient Lore and Lost Greatness
- 1. The Azure Land 3
- 2. The Byzantine Eagle 13
- 3. Seed in Numbers 19
- 4. Poverty and Communal Celebrations 31
- 5. Death and Black Flowers 39
- 6. Stories for the Poor 42
- Part 2 Nationhood and Exile
- 7. Romiosini, the Beautiful Word 47
- 8. Toward the Unknown 51
- 9. Leaving the Ships with Fleas 60
- 10. Shoeshine Boys 67
- 11. The Coffeehouse 70
- 12. The Greek American Press 76
- 13. Priests and Apostates 78
- 14. The Midwest and West 88
- 15. Strangers among Strangers 92
- 16. Riding the Rails 98
- 17. The Midwife Magherou 109
- 18. Men Wanting to See the Sky 113
- 19. Maria Economidhou, Journalist 116
- 20. Picture Brides 122
- 21. Strikes and Strikebreakers 138
- Part 3 Americanization
- 22. Disorder and World War I 151
- 23. The Ku Klux Klan and the American Legion 158
- 24. The Greek Cult of Success 164
- 25. America Swallows the Young 169
- 26. Refugee Songs for Solace 174
- 27. Straddling Two Cultures 179
- 28. Never a Nickel for a Drink 205
- 29. Archbishop Athenagoras 214
- 30. The End of the Great Immigrant Era 224
- 31. The Lost Native Land 238
- 32. Rebels and Pilgrims 245
- 33. Maria Callas: A Lost Childhood 251
- 34. Anguish in the Confessionals 254
- Epilogue: Vestiges of Romiosini 262.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-302) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0804010374
- 0804010382
- OCLC:
- 47216882
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