Italian Americans on the Page : Revisiting the Classics and Exploring New Voices.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calabretta-Sajder, Ryan.

Contributor:

Gravano, Alan J.

Series:

SUNY Series in Italian/American Culture Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2025.

Summary:

Approaches Italian American literature from new critical perspectives and explores contemporary and understudied voices from both the United States and Canada.Italian Americans on the Page fills a significant gap in Italian American and Italian diaspora studies, particularly literature, as it explores four genres--fiction, poetry, memoir, and.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Rethinking the Past and Bridging the Future of Italian American Studies

Overview: From Italian Americans on Screen to Italian Americans on the Page

Opening Thoughts: Dreaming the Past, Charting the Future

Beginnings of Italian American Thought

Pen to Page: An Overview of Italian Americans on the Page

Notes

Works Cited

Section 1: Rereading the Italian American Canon: Intersectionalizing the Narrative

Chapter 1: "Who Will Buy My Marriage Spread?" The Economy of Affects and the Construction of a Diasporic Domesticity in Helen Barolini's Umbertina

Migrant Objects and Homes in Motion

The Time-Crossing Potentials of the Corredo

The Nostalgic Costs of Trading Affects

The Un-worlded Object

Conclusions

Chapter 2: Dietrologia: Italian American Heritage and the Conspiracy of Postwar Whiteness in Don DeLillo's Underworld

Introduction: The White (Ethnic) Voice of America

Underworld: "Italian American Novel" Disguised as "Great American Novel"

Racialized Italian Ethnicity as Waste: The Underworld of Cold War Whiteness

Conclusion: DeLilloian Italian-ness as Text, Not Essence

Section 2: Confessionalism in Italian American Poets: Moving Beyond Categories

Chapter 3: Hidden Roots: Mary Jo Paradise Salter and the Subtle Presence of Italian-ness

Tell Me Where the Italian American Poets Are: In the Heart or the Head

Italy and Italianità in Mary Jo Salter's Poetry

Chapter 4: Queering Italian American Poetry: Peter Covino's Cut Off the Ears of Winter: Psychoanalysis, Performativity, Language

Queer Italian American Poetry?

The Case of Peter Covino

Cut Off the Ears of Winter: Sacrifice, Reflection, Forgiveness?

Preliminary Conclusions

Works Cited.

Section 3: Blurring the Past, Redefining the Future: Italian Americans and Memoir

Chapter 5: Memoir and the Invention of Italian American Experience: A Tribute to Louise DeSalvo

Chapter 6: Criminalizing Desire: An Intersectional Approach to Patriarchy's Monsters in Karen Tintori's Unto the Daughters: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian American Family and Juliet Grames's The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

Cover Stories

Female Desire and Italian American Women's Writing

Archival Traces in Family Tree Histories

Shame on Their Honor: Sister Murder and Photographs That Speak

Italian Women Warriors and Legacies of Rape Culture

Conclusion

Chapter 7: The Very Queer Truth: Ben Piazza's Italian Southerner

Section 4: From Page to Stage: Italian Americans and Italian Canadians

Chapter 8: Queer Intimacies in Italian Canadian Literature

"Darmi la forza di non vedere": Silencing and Epistemology of the Ethnic Closet

Queer Geographies

Queer Temporalities

Chapter 9: Daughter-Mother Borderlands in Contemporary Italian American and Italian Canadian Theater

Introduction

Daughter-Mother Bonds

Daughters Discerning Subjectivity

Five Plays (1980-2012)

Daughter-Mother Borderlands

New Daughter-Mother Bonds through Umbilical Objects in the Texts

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

979-88-558-0401-0

OCLC:

1537949234