Italoamericana : the literature of the great migration, 1880-1943 / edited by Francesco Durante ; general editor of the American edition, Robert Viscusi ; translations editor, Anthony Julian Tamburri ; bibliographic editor, James J. Periconi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Durante, Francesco, editor.

Viscusi, Robert, editor.

Tamburri, Anthony Julian, editor.

Periconi, James J., editor.

Standardized Title:

Italoamericana.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian American literature--History and criticism.

Italian American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1032 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Allows readers to see American society through the eyes of Italian-speaking immigrants.

Contents:

Chronicle of the Great Exodus. To the readers / Carlo Barsotti ; Shine? ... Shine? / Ferdinando Fontana ; For humanity / Luigi Roversi ; The biography of a bootblack / Rocco Corresca ; Little Italy / Gaetano Conte ; How it feels to represent a problem / Gino Carlo Speranza ; The children of emigrants / Alberto Pecorini ; Neither foreigners nor Americans / Alberto Tarchiani ; Public service is my motto / Al Capone

Colonial chronicles.

Peppino / Luigi Donato Ventura ; The destruction of San Francisco, April 18, 1906 / Fanny Vanzi-Mussini ; The five points / Adolfo Rossi ; To Giuseppe Giacosa / Giuseppe Antonio Cadicamo ; Two stories / Edoardo Michalangeli ; A story, sketches, and a play / Bernardino Ciambelli ; An emigrant's diary / Camillo Cianfarra ; Two poems / Thomas Fragale ; Two poems / Antonio Calitri ; Three poems / Angelo Rosati ; The poor woman / Calicchu Pucciu ; The little Madonna of the Italians / Paolo Pallavicini ; Bohemian and detective / Italo Stanco ; Brunori's fortune / Ernesto Valentini ; Hold up! / Eugenio Camillo Branchi ; The two girlfriends / Dora Colonna ; The flapper / Caterina Maria Avella ; Seven poems / Severina Magni ; The hula hula flag / Antonio Marinoni ; The verdict / Corrado Altavilla

On stage (and Off). The interrogation of Pulcinella / Francesco Ricciardi ; Four poems and a dramatic play / Riccardo Cordiferro ; Five poems / Eduardo Migliaccio ; Three poems / Tony Ferrazzano ; Nofrio on the telephone / Giovanni de Rosalia ; Child abductors : or, the black hand / Armando Cennerazzo ; Two poems / Gino Calza ; The Americanized Calabrian / Michele Pane ; Dante's colony / Achille Almerini ; Spaghetti house / Vincenzo Campora ; Two poems / Alfredo Borgianini ; Six poems / Rodolfo Valentino ; Domestic court / Silvio Picchianti ; Leaves in the whirlwind / Ario Flamma

Anarchists, Socialists, Fascists, and Antifascists. The first of May / Giuseppe Ciancabilla ; Two poems / Simplicio Righi ; Methods of the Socialist struggle / Luigi Galleani ; An editorial and a dramatic play / Umberto Postiglione ; A letter and a story / Ludovico M. Caminita ; Six poems / Giuseppe Bertelli ; Brief discourses / Alberico Molinari ; Four poems / Arturo Giovannitti ; Four poems / Efrem Bartoletti ; The fire / Vincenzo Vacirca ; In Union Square Park / Onorio Ruotolo ; Fascism in America / Agostino de Biasi ; The lighthouse / Rosario Ingargiola ; To Mussolini, the immortal / Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni ; Two poems / Rosario di Vita ; Two poems / Umberto Liberatore ; The failed ambush / Armando Borghi ; Remembering Michele Schirru / Virgilia D'andrea ; What to do? / Raffaele Schiavina ; Two articles / Carlo Tresca ; Once again Tresca / Ezio Taddei

Integrated apocalyptics. A story and a poem / Lisi Cecilia Cipriani ; A schoolmaster of the great city / Angelo Patri ; Viola / Silvio Villa ; In an immigrant community / Constantine Maria Panunzio ; The day of summer / Emanuel Carnevali ; Son of Italy / Pascal D'angelo ; Incipit vita nova / Francesco Ventresca ; The torture of the soul / Louis Forgione ; Miracle / Giuseppe Cautela ; A picture of 1907 / Edward Corsi.

Notes:

Previously published as: Italoamericana : storia e letteratura degli italiani negli Stati Uniti, 1880-1943 (Milano : Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2005).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

9780823260638

0823260631

9780823260621

0823260623

9780823260645

082326064X

9780823255931

082325593X

OCLC:

878144585