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Italian folk : vernacular culture in Italian-American lives / edited by Joseph Sciorra.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical studies in Italian America.
- Critical studies in Italian America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italian Americans--Folklore.
- Italian Americans.
- Italian Americans--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 257 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at best.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""Listening with an Accent""; ""Sunday Dinner? You Had to Be There!""; ""Cuscuszu in Detroit, July 18, 1993""; ""The Italian Immigrant Basement Kitchen in North America""; ""Creative Responses to the Italian Immigrant Experience in California""; ""Landscapes of Order, Landscapes of Memory""; ""Locating Memory""; ""Valtaro Musette""; ""Italians in Public Memory""; ""Changing St. Gerard's Clothes""; ""Cursed Flesh""; ""Imagining the Strega""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-3267-0
- OCLC:
- 708566773
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