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Author : Anne T. Romano Ph.D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453547827
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Daughters of Italy written by Anne T. Romano Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Author : Fred L. Gardaphé
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791485978
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Leaving Little Italy written by Fred L. Gardaphé and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving Little Italy explores the various forces that have shaped and continue to mold Italian American culture. Early chapters offer a historical survey of major developments in Italian American culture, from the early mass immigration period to the present day, situating these developments within the larger framework of American culture as a whole. Subsequent chapters examine particular works of Italian American literature and film from a variety of perspectives, including literary history, gender, social class, autobiography, and race. Paying particular attention to how the individual artist's personality has intersected with community in the shaping of Italian American culture, the book reveals how and why Italian America was invented and why Little Italys must ultimately disappear.
Author : Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532435
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (324 download)
Download or read book Breaking Open written by Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, prominent Italian American creative women discuss the ways their heritage has impacted their works. They discuss the ways that their childhood memories of immigrants and their practices have been a strong foundation for their creativity.
Author : Richard Gambino
Publisher : Guernica Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781550711011
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Blood of My Blood written by Richard Gambino and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Gambino, PhD, is the author of Vendetta. He lives in New York.
Author : Colleen Ryan-Scheutz
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802092853
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Sex, the Self, and the Sacred written by Colleen Ryan-Scheutz and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon Italy's distinct socio-cultural history as well as feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to film, Colleen Ryan-Scheutz explores the ways in which Pasolini's representations of women reveal his concerns about the corruption of modern society.
Author : Chiara Mazzucchelli
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438459246
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Heart and the Island written by Chiara Mazzucchelli and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Heart and the Island, Chiara Mazzucchelli explores the strong bond between Sicilian American writers and the island of Sicily. Self-contained yet connected to the mainland, geographically separated from yet politically united to the rest of Italy, Sicily occupies a unique position. Throughout the twentieth century, the sense of a distinct sicilianità—or Sicilianness—has manifested itself in a corpus of texts that, although subsumed under the broader context of Italian literature, have distinguished themselves as examples of an exquisitely Sicilian literary experience. Mazzucchelli argues that a parallel phenomenon—sicilianamericanità—has emerged in the United States. Focusing on the island's geography, history, and culture, she examines how many American authors of Sicilian descent derive inspiration from their ethnic milieu and lay out a recognizable set of Sicilian culture markers in their works, thereby producing a literature that is distinctly Sicilian American. Drawing on both Italian and Italian American scholarship, The Heart and the Island is the first full-length study of Sicilian American literature, and it opens a space for new interdisciplinary discussions on what it means to be Italian on both sides of the ocean.
Author : Mary Jo Bona
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438429975
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book By the Breath of Their Mouths written by Mary Jo Bona and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In By the Breath of Their Mouths, Mary Jo Bona examines the oral uses of language and the liberating power of speech in Italian American writing, as well as its influences on generations of assimilated Italian American writers. Probing and wide-ranging, Bona's analysis reveals the lasting importance of storytelling and folk narrative, their impact on ethnic, working-class, and women's literatures, and their importance in shaping multiethnic literature. Drawing on a wide range of material from several genres, including oral biographies, fiction, film, poetry, and memoir, and grounded in recent theories of narrative and autobiography, postcolonial theory, and critical multiculturalism, By the Breath of Their Mouths is must reading for students in Italian American studies in particular and ethnic studies and multiethnic literature more generally.
Author : Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Revisionary Identities written by Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian Americans, the fifth-largest ethnic group in the United States, make up a large segment of the population. It is only recently that the daughters and granddaughters of Italian immigrants have begun to write fiction and poetry about their experiences as Italian/American women. Revisionary Identities focuses on the writings of these women and argues that their works reveal a new identity that is composed of both Italian and American elements but which is neither completely Italian nor totally American. For these writers the categories of race, class, gender, and religion blur causing conflicts, which they try to resolve by imagining an all-powerful immigrant grandmother with whom they form a bond.
Author : Pellegrino A D'Acierno
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000525554
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Italian American Heritage written by Pellegrino A D'Acierno and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-12 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. The many available scholarly works on Italian-Americans are perhaps of little practical help to the undergraduate or high school student who needs background information when reading contemporary fiction with Italian characters, watching films that require a familiarity with Italian Americans, or looking at works of art that can be fully appreciated only if one understands Italian culture. This basic reference work for non-specialists and students offers quick insights and essential, easy-to-grasp information on Italian-American contributions to American art, music, literature, motion pictures and cultural life. This rich legacy is examined in a collection of original essays that include portrayals of Italian characters in the films of Francis Coppola, Italian American poetry, the art of Frank Stella, the music of Frank Zappa, a survey of Italian folk customs and an analysis of the evolution of Italian-American biography. Comprising 22 lengthy essays written specifically for this volume, the book identifies what is uniquely Italian in American life and examines how Italian customs, traditions, social mores and cultural antecedents have wrought their influence on the American character. Filled with insights, observations and ethnic facts and fictions, this volume should prove to be a valuable source of information for scholars, researchers and students interested in pinpointing and examining the cultural, intellectual and social influence of Italian immigrants and their successors.
Author : Deborah Burns
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1631525484
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Saturday's Child written by Deborah Burns and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Devilishly sharp… a masterful balance of psychological excavation and sumptuous description.” —Kirkus Reviews An only child, Deborah Burns grew up in prim 1950s America in the shadow of her beautiful, unconventional, rule-breaking mother, Dorothy—a red-haired beauty who looked like Rita Hayworth and skirted norms with a style and flair that made her the darling of men and women alike. Married to the son of a renowned Italian family with ties to the underworld, Dorothy fervently eschewed motherhood and domesticity, turning Deborah over to her spinster aunts to raise while she was the star of a vibrant social life. As a child, Deborah revered her charismatic mother, but Dorothy was a woman full of secrets with a troubled past—a mistress of illusion whose love seemed just out of her daughter’s grasp. In vivid, lyrical prose, Saturday’s Child tells the story of Deborah’s eccentric upbringing and her quest in midlife, long after her parents’ death, to uncover the truth about her mother and their complex relationship. No longer under the spell of her maternal goddess, but still caught in a wrenching cycle of love and longing, Deborah must finally confront the reality of her mother’s legacy—and finally claim her own.
Author : A. Kenneth Ciongoli
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874518887
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Godfather written by A. Kenneth Ciongoli and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1997 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long overdue collection of memoirs and scholarlyreflections on growing up Italian and American.
Author : Lenard V. Fulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book International Directory of Little Magazines & Small Presses written by Lenard V. Fulton and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diana Rubino
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1509201297
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Bootleg Broadway written by Diana Rubino and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1932. Prohibition rages, the Depression ravages, and Billy McGlory comes of age whether he wants to or not. Musical and adventurous, Billy dreams of having his own ritzy supper club and big band. On the eve of his marriage to the pregnant Prudence, the shifty “businessman” Rosario Ingovito offers him all that and more. Fame, fortune, his own Broadway musical—it’s all his for the taking, despite Pru’s opposition to Rosie’s ventures. Meanwhile, Pru’s artistic career gains momentum and their child is born. Can anything go wrong for Billy? Only when he gets in way over his head does he stop to wonder how his business partner really makes his millions, but by then it’s far too late…
Author : Fred Gardaphe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135397791
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book From Wiseguys to Wise Men written by Fred Gardaphe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gangster, in the hands of the Italian American artist, becomes a telling figure in the tale of American race, gender, and ethnicity - a figure that reflects the autobiography of an immigrant group just as it reflects the fantasy of a native population. From Wiseguys to Wise Men studies the figure of the gangster and explores its social function in the construction and projection of masculinity in the United States. By looking at the cultural icon of the gangster through the lens of gender, this book presents new insights into material that has been part of American culture for close to 100 years.
Author : Meyer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004656502
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Literature and Ethnic Discrimination written by Meyer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though universities and colleges make a concerted effort to foster unity and worldwide acceptance of different ethnicities by including politically correct literature in their curriculums, their attempts to protect students from being exposed to texts that portray discrimination and exhibit racial insensitivity are futile and ill-advised. Texts that contain biases based on otherness continue to be written and those produced in the past remain relevant and still demand the attention of an audience of reader. In order to see the full picture of the world in which they live, students must face even that which is uncomfortable and disturbing. To think otherwise is to create and academic environment that is totally idealistic and distorts the fact that ethnic discrimination has been a potent reality in every society in history and remains so today. These studies in this volume allow readers to meet writers from the traditional American and European canon while also being exposed to third world writers whose work may be unfamiliar. They include memoirs of Holocaust survivors and even record the silencing of Italian women, Apartheid in South Africa and tribal conflict in Nigeria as well as transplanted Asian culture in Canada and the idolization of the black body in Japan. The collection permits a viewing of the ethnic 'other' not merely in a politically correct way in which one samples the differences and nods approvingly. Rather its intent is to offer opportunities for contemplative assessment of authorial motives and goals, thereby engendering a wealth of understanding based on active engagement rather than passive acceptance of the status quo.
Author : Rosina Neginsky
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443824526
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences written by Rosina Neginsky and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of the symbol is at the root of the Symbolist movement, but this symbol is different from the way it was used and understood in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In the Symbolist movement, a symbol is not an allegory. The Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck defined its essence in an article that appeared on April 24, 1887, in L’Art moderne. He wrote that the notion of a symbol in the Symbolist movement is the opposite of the notion of the symbol in classical usage: instead of going from the abstract to the concrete (Venus, incarnated in the statue, represents love), it goes from the concrete to the abstract, from “what is seen, heard, felt, tasted, and sensed to the evocation of the idea.” This volume attempts to give a glimpse into the power of the Symbolist movement and the nature of its fundamental and interdisciplinary role in the evolution of art and literature of the twentieth century. It records the studies of a group of scholars, who met and discussed these topics together for the first time in 2009. While illuminating the specificity of Symbolism in art, architecture and literature in different European countries, these articles also demonstrate the crucial role of French Symbolism in the development of the international Symbolist movement. The authors hope that an expanding group, a society of Art, Literature and Music in Symbolism and Decadence (ALMSD), born out of the first meeting, will continue to further this discussion at future conferences and in the printed conference proceedings.
Author : Paolo Giordano
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838637326
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Margin written by Paolo Giordano and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors' goal in this book is to give a critical overview of where Italian/American literary and cultural studies are today. To this end, Beyond the Margin includes three types of essays: the characteristics of Italian/American literature and culture in a general sense; specific writers; and film.
