Italoamericana : : The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943 / / ed. by Francesco Durante, Anthony Julian Tamburri, Robert Viscusi.

To appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration to its settlement in America requires that one come to know how these immigrants saw their communities as colonies of the mother country. Edited with extraordinary skill, Italoamericana: The Literat...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction to the American Edition
  • Part I. Chronicle of the Great Exodus
  • Introduction
  • To the Readers
  • Shine? . . . Shine?
  • For Humanity
  • The Biography of a Bootblack
  • Little Italy
  • How It Feels to Represent a Problem
  • The Children of Emigrants
  • Neither Foreigners nor Americans
  • Public Service Is My Motto
  • Part II. Colonial Chronicles
  • Introduction
  • Peppino
  • The Destruction of San Francisco, April 18, 1906
  • The Five Points
  • To Giuseppe Giacosa
  • Two Stories
  • A Story, Sketches, and a Play
  • An Emigrant’s Diary
  • Two Poems
  • Two Poems
  • Three Poems
  • The Poor Woman
  • The Little Madonna of the Italians
  • Bohemian and Detective
  • Brunori’s Fortune
  • Hold Up!
  • The Two Girlfriends
  • The Flapper
  • Seven Poems
  • The Hula Hula Flag
  • The Verdict
  • Part III. On Stage (and Off )
  • Introduction
  • The Interrogation of Pulcinella
  • Four Poems and a Dramatic Play
  • Five Poems
  • Three Poems
  • Nofrio on the Telephone
  • Child Abductors, or, The Black Hand
  • Two Poems
  • The Americanized Calabrian
  • Dante’s Colony
  • The Pichinicco
  • Spaghetti House
  • Two Poems
  • Six Poems
  • Domestic Court
  • Leaves in the Whirlwind
  • Part IV. Anarchists, Socialists, Fascists, and Antifascists
  • Introduction
  • The First of May
  • Two Poems
  • Methods of the Socialist Struggle
  • An Editorial and a Dramatic Play
  • A Letter and a Story
  • Six Poems
  • Brief Discourses
  • Four Poems
  • Four Poems
  • The Fire
  • In Union Square Park
  • Fascism in America
  • The Lighthouse
  • To Mussolini, the Immortal
  • Two Poems
  • Two Poems
  • The Failed Ambush
  • Remembering Michele Schirru
  • What to Do?
  • Two Articles
  • Once Again Tresca
  • Part V. Integrated Apocalyptics
  • Introduction
  • A Story and a Poem
  • A Schoolmaster of the Great City
  • Viola
  • In an Immigrant Community
  • The Day of Summer
  • Son of Italy
  • Incipit Vita Nova
  • The Torture of the Soul
  • Miracle
  • A Picture of 1907
  • Bibliography
  • Index