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When I am Italian

Herman, Joanna Clapps, author

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\"My American ancestral Italian village was in Waterbury, Connecticut.\" In this sentence, Joanna Clapps Herman raises the central question of this book: To what extent can a person born outside of Italy be considered Italian? The granddaughter of Italian immigrants who arrived in the United States in the early 1900s, Herman takes a complicated and nuanced look at the question of to whom and to which culture she ultimately belongs. Sometimes the Italian part of her identity--her Italianitلa--feels so aboriginal as to be inchoate, unexpressible. Sometimes it finds its expression in the rhythms of daily life. Sometimes it is embraced and enhanced; at others, it feels attenuated. \"If, like me,\" Herman writes, \"you are from one of Italy's overseas colonies, at least some of this Italianitلa will be in your skin, bones, and heart: other pieces have to be understood, considered, called to ourselves through study, travel, reading. How do we know which pieces are which?\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Excelsior editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press
• Subject: Herman, Joanna Clapps. / Herman, Joanna Clapps Family. / Herman, Joanna Clapps Travel Italy. / Italian Americans Biography. / Italian American women Biography. / Italian Americans Ethnic identity. / Italian Americans Connecticut Waterbury Social life and customs. / Waterbury (Conn.) Biography.
• ISBN: 9781438477183, 143847718X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E184.I8 H47 2020	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE