'Merica : a conference on the culture and literature of Italians in North America / edited by Aldo Bove and Giuseppe Massara.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bove, Aldo.

Massara, Giuseppe.

Series:

Filibrary series ; no. 25.

Filibrary series ; no. 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian Americans--Ethnic identity--Congresses.

Italian Americans--Civilization--Congresses.

Italian Americans--Cultural assimilation--Congresses.

Italian American literature--Congresses.

Italian American literature.

Italian Americans--Cultural assimilation.

Italian Americans.

Civilization.

Italian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

America

Conference on the culture and literature of Italians in North America

Place of Publication:

Stony Brook, NY : Forum Italicum Publishing, 2006.

Contents:

Section I: Italians in history, politics, and society

1. Mother Cabrini's halo and the symbolic order of the Italian immigrant communities / William Boelhower

2. Autobiographical writings and official history / Emilio Franzina

3. Italy and America over a span of three Italian American generations: first results of a research project / Marcello Saija

4. Italian immigration to North America as a clash of cultures / Franc Sturino

Section II: Towards a definition of Italian identity in North America

5. The Italians and the 'Mericans: myths and metaphors of becoming American / Fred Gardaphé

6. Joseph Tusiani: a multilingual profile / Cosma Siani

7. Italian Americans and race: to be or not to be white / Rudolph J. Vecoli

8. Return voyages: Rossellini, Scorsese and the identity of national cinema / Pasquale Verdicchio

9. Flags and shopping bags: composing an Italian American spectacle / Robert Viscusi

Section III: The linguistic and literary perspective

10. The language of exile / Fulvio Caccia

11. Not only McArone: nineteenth-century additions to the Italian-American literary canon / Francesco Durante

12. Voices from Canada / Alessandro Gebbia

13. America and emigration in the Italian fiction of the past twenty years / Sebastiano Martelli

14. King of Harlem: Garibaldi Lapolla and Gennaro Accuci "il Grande" / Martino Marazzi

15. From "Italiano 2000" to the permanent linguistic observatory for Italian diffused among foreigners and immigrants / Massimo Vedovelli and Monica Barni

Section IV: The shapes of a culture

16. How the "Italian" is woven with the "American" in my life and art / B. Amore

17. Italianità: reviewing the spatial semiotics of little Italies / Jerome Krase

18. The other passenger / Antonino Mazza

19. 'Merica: an exhibition / Cosimo Palagiano ... [et al.].

Notes:

This book represents proceedings of conference held in Rome and Cassino in January 2003.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1893127257

9781893127258

OCLC:

71201289