Italian Immigrant Radical Culture : : The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940 /

Italian Immigrant Radical Culture : : The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940 / / Marcella Bencivenni.

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Maligned by modern media and often stereotyped, Italian Americans possess a vibrant, if largely forgotten, radical past. In Italian Immigrant Radical Culture, Marcella Bencivenni delves into the history of the sovversivi, a transnational generation of social rebels, and offers a fascinating portrait...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Bencivenni, Marcella,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Italian American Radicalism: Old World Roots, New World Developments
  • 2. The Sovversivi and Their Cultural World
  • 3. A Literary Class War: The Italian American Radical Press
  • 4. Politics and Leisure: The Italian American Radical Stage
  • 5. Italian American Literary Radicalism
  • 6. Arturo Giovannitti: Poet and Prophet of Labor
  • 7. Allegories of Anti-Fascism: The Radical Cartoons of Fort Velona
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Frequently Used Italian Terms
  • Index
  • About the Author

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