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Italian Immigrant Radical Culture
·\"An important contribution to the history of the Italian-American left.\" - Fraser Ottanelli, Professor of History, University of South Florida
·\"A welcome introduction to the poorly understood immigrantsovversivi.\" - Donna Gabaccia, University of Minnesota
·\"A superb analysis of radical working-class poetry, drama, and art.\" - Nunzio Pernicone, author ofItalian Anarchism, 1864-1892
·\"Anyone interested in the topic will benefit from Bencivenni's deep understanding of her subject, her exhaustive research, and her clear organization and writing.\" - R.J. Goldstein,Choice
·\"An impressive book that nicely complements existing studies… It deserves a wide audience.\" - Mike Rosenow,H-Net Reviews
·\"Bencivenni's superb analysis… ensure[s] that the works of these men and women will have a lasting legacy.\" - Diane C. Vecchio, Furman University
·\"A great book that will benefit well-established scholars, newly minted Ph.D.'s, and graduate students.\" - Caroline Merithew,Italian American Review
·\"Sheds illuminating light on a part of that history that is often overlooked.\" - Stefan Bosworth
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The Italian American Table
Looking at the historic Italian American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, Simone Cinotto recreates the bustling world of Italian life in New York City and demonstrates how food was at the center of the lives of immigrants and their children. Drawing on a vast array of resources including fascinating, rarely explored primary documents and fresh approaches in the study of consumer culture, Cinotto argues that Italian immigrants created a distinctive culture of food as a symbolic response to the needs of immigrant life, from the struggle for personal and group identity to the pursuit of social and economic power. Adding a transnational dimension to the study of Italian American foodways, Cinotto recasts Italian American food culture as an American \"invention\" resonant with traces of tradition.
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Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing
Winner of the 2006 Pietro Di Donato and John Fante Literary
Award from The Grand Lodge of the Sons of Italy, New York
State Robert Viscusi takes a comprehensive look at Italian
American writing by exploring the connections between language and
culture in Italian American experience and major literary texts.
Italian immigrants, Viscusi argues, considered even their English
to be a dialect of Italian, and therefore attempted to create an
American English fully reflective of their historical, social, and
cultural positions. This approach allows us to see Italian American
purposes as profoundly situated in relation not only to American
language and culture but also to Italian nationalist narratives in
literary history as well as linguistic practice. Viscusi also
situates Italian American writing within the \"eccentric design\" of
American literature, and uses a multidisciplinary approach to read
not only novels and poems, but also houses, maps, processions,
videos, and other artifacts as texts.
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Re-reading Italian Americana
This book is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the general situation of Italian/American literature and its reception both in the United States and in Italy. It also discusses other social and cultural issues that pertain to Italian Americana. Section two consists of six chapters, each discussing a specific author; three dedicated to prose (Pietro di Donato, Mario Puzo, Luigi Barzini), three dedicated to poetry (Joseph Tusiani, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Rina Ferrarelli). Section three examines the current state of criticism dedicated to Italian/American literature, the second part focusing in on a number of specific works.
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A New Language, A New World
An examination of Italian immigrants and their children in the early twentieth century, A New Language, A New World is the first full-length historical case study of one immigrant group's experience with language in America. Incorporating the interdisciplinary literature on language within a historical framework, Nancy C. Carnevale illustrates the complexity of the topic of language in American immigrant life. By looking at language from the perspectives of both immigrants and the dominant culture as well as their interaction, this book reveals the role of language in the formation of ethnic identity and the often coercive context within which immigrants must negotiate this process. _x000B__x000B_Carnevale provides the context for understanding the linguistic history of Italian Americans by presenting a brief overview of the politics of language in Italy, with its racialized split between North and South, multiple dialects, and class divisions. During the Age of Migration, Italian immigrants encountered a similarly contested linguistic terrain in America, where immigrant languages in general were devalued and knowledge of the English language served as a criterion for full membership in a racially constructed society._x000B__x000B_Exploring a range of issues faced by Italians once they reached the United States, Carnevale considers the immigrant perspective on translation in both a literal linguistic sense and a figurative translation of self-identity. Italian Americans found a familiar voice in the popular entertainer Farfariello, whose comic songs incorporating the Italo-American idiom expressed problems of immigrant life as problems of communication--often between the sexes--suggesting the centrality of language in the immigrant imagination. And with the rise of fascism in the Italian homeland, the Italian language took on even more conflicted meanings in America as Italian Americans were regarded with suspicion and scrutiny._x000B__x000B_Grounded in a diverse array of archival sources, this study deepens our understanding of linguistic transformations in America and what they mean for ethnic identity and the process of assimilation. The story of Italians living with a new language in a new world forms only one piece of America's larger linguistic history, a history that has been integral to American conceptions of nation, race, and ethnicity.
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