Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943
The highly-anticipated first English-language edition of the monumental critical anthology of writings from the golden age of the Italian disapora in America is now available.

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 Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943 brings to an English-speaking audience a definitive collection of classic writings on, about, and from the formative years of the Italian-American experience.

Originally published in Italian, this landmark collection of translated writings establishes a rich, diverse, and mature sense of Italian-American life by allowing readers to see American society through the eyes of Italian-speaking immigrants. Filled with the voices from the first generation of Italian-American life, the book presents a unique treasury of long-inaccessible writing that embodies a literary canon for Italian-American culture—poetry, drama, journalism, political advocacy, history, memoir, biography, and story—the greater part of which has never before been translated.

Italoamericana introduces a new generation of readers to the "Black Hand" and the organized crime of the 1920s, the incredible "pulp" novels by Bernardino Ciambelli, Paolo Pallavicini, Italo Stanco, Corrado Altavilla, the exhilarating "macchiette" by Eduardo Migliaccio (Farfariello) and Tony Ferrazzano, the comedies by Giovanni De Rosalia, Riccardo Cordiferro's dramas and poems, the poetry of Fanny Vanzi-Mussini and Eduardo Migliaccio.

Edited by a leading journalist and scholar, Italoamericana introduces an important but little-known, largely inaccessible Italian-language literary heritage that defined the Italian-American experience. Organized into five sections—"Annals of the Great Exodus," "Colonial Chronicles," "On Stage (and Off-Stage)," "Anarchists, Socialist, Fascists, Anti-Fascists," and "Apocalyptic Integrated / Integrated Apocalyptic Intellectuals"—the volume distinguishes a literary, cultural, and intellectual history that engages the reader in all sorts of archaeological and genealogical work.
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Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943
The highly-anticipated first English-language edition of the monumental critical anthology of writings from the golden age of the Italian disapora in America is now available.

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 Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943 brings to an English-speaking audience a definitive collection of classic writings on, about, and from the formative years of the Italian-American experience.

Originally published in Italian, this landmark collection of translated writings establishes a rich, diverse, and mature sense of Italian-American life by allowing readers to see American society through the eyes of Italian-speaking immigrants. Filled with the voices from the first generation of Italian-American life, the book presents a unique treasury of long-inaccessible writing that embodies a literary canon for Italian-American culture—poetry, drama, journalism, political advocacy, history, memoir, biography, and story—the greater part of which has never before been translated.

Italoamericana introduces a new generation of readers to the "Black Hand" and the organized crime of the 1920s, the incredible "pulp" novels by Bernardino Ciambelli, Paolo Pallavicini, Italo Stanco, Corrado Altavilla, the exhilarating "macchiette" by Eduardo Migliaccio (Farfariello) and Tony Ferrazzano, the comedies by Giovanni De Rosalia, Riccardo Cordiferro's dramas and poems, the poetry of Fanny Vanzi-Mussini and Eduardo Migliaccio.

Edited by a leading journalist and scholar, Italoamericana introduces an important but little-known, largely inaccessible Italian-language literary heritage that defined the Italian-American experience. Organized into five sections—"Annals of the Great Exodus," "Colonial Chronicles," "On Stage (and Off-Stage)," "Anarchists, Socialist, Fascists, Anti-Fascists," and "Apocalyptic Integrated / Integrated Apocalyptic Intellectuals"—the volume distinguishes a literary, cultural, and intellectual history that engages the reader in all sorts of archaeological and genealogical work.
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Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943

Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943

Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943

Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943

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The highly-anticipated first English-language edition of the monumental critical anthology of writings from the golden age of the Italian disapora in America is now available.

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 Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943 brings to an English-speaking audience a definitive collection of classic writings on, about, and from the formative years of the Italian-American experience.

Originally published in Italian, this landmark collection of translated writings establishes a rich, diverse, and mature sense of Italian-American life by allowing readers to see American society through the eyes of Italian-speaking immigrants. Filled with the voices from the first generation of Italian-American life, the book presents a unique treasury of long-inaccessible writing that embodies a literary canon for Italian-American culture—poetry, drama, journalism, political advocacy, history, memoir, biography, and story—the greater part of which has never before been translated.

Italoamericana introduces a new generation of readers to the "Black Hand" and the organized crime of the 1920s, the incredible "pulp" novels by Bernardino Ciambelli, Paolo Pallavicini, Italo Stanco, Corrado Altavilla, the exhilarating "macchiette" by Eduardo Migliaccio (Farfariello) and Tony Ferrazzano, the comedies by Giovanni De Rosalia, Riccardo Cordiferro's dramas and poems, the poetry of Fanny Vanzi-Mussini and Eduardo Migliaccio.

Edited by a leading journalist and scholar, Italoamericana introduces an important but little-known, largely inaccessible Italian-language literary heritage that defined the Italian-American experience. Organized into five sections—"Annals of the Great Exodus," "Colonial Chronicles," "On Stage (and Off-Stage)," "Anarchists, Socialist, Fascists, Anti-Fascists," and "Apocalyptic Integrated / Integrated Apocalyptic Intellectuals"—the volume distinguishes a literary, cultural, and intellectual history that engages the reader in all sorts of archaeological and genealogical work.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780823260614
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 04/15/2014
Pages: 1032
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 2.50(d)

About the Author

Francesco Durante is a journalist as well as Professor of literature at the University of Suor Orsola Benincasa as part of the Program in Modern Languages and Culture.

Robert Viscusi, Ph.D., is professor of English and executive officer of the Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College, president of the Italian American Writers Association, novelist, critic, and scholar of Italian American literature and culture, author of the epic poem Ellis Island.

Anthony Julian Tamburri, Ph.D., is dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, CUNY) and former president of the Italian American Studies Association and the American Association of Teachers of Italian. His latest book is Re-reading Italian Americana (2013).

James J. Periconi, a Manhattan attorney, exhibited his collection of more than one hundred Italian-language American imprints of authors whose works are excerpted in Italoamericana at New York's Grolier Club in 2012 and extensively catalogued these works in Strangers in a Strange Land.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Chronicle of the Great Exodus
Introduction

Carlo Barsotti
To the Readers

Ferdinando Fontana
Shine? . . . Shine?

Luigi Roversi
For Humanity

Rocco Corresca
Biography of a Bootblack

Gaetano Conte
Little Italy

Gino Carlo Speranza
How It Feels to Represent a Problem

Alberto Pecorini
The Children of Emigrants

Alberto Tarchiani
Neither Foreigners nor Americans

Al Capone
Public Service Is My Motto

Part II. Colonial Reports
Introduction

Luigi Donato Ventura
Peppino

Fanny Vanzi-Mussini
The Destruction of San Francisco, April 18, 1906

Adolfo Rossi
The Five Points

Giuseppe Antonio Cadicamo
To Giuseppe Giacosa

Edoardo Michelangeli
Two Stories

Bernardino Ciambelli
A Story, Sketches, and a Play

Camillo Cianfarra
An Emigrant's Diary

Thomas Fragale
Two Poems

Antonio Calitri
Two Poems

Angelo Rosati
Three Poems

Calicchiu Pucciu
The Poor Woman

Paolo Pallavicini
The Little Madonna of the Italians

Italo Stanco
Bohemian and Detective

Ernesto Valentini
Brunori's Fortune

Eugenio Camillo Branchi
Hold Up!

Dora Colonna
The Two Girlfriends

Caterina Maria Avella
The Flapper

Severina Magni
Seven Poems

Antonio Marinoni
The Hula Hula Flag

Corrado Altavilla
The Verdict

Part III. On Stage (and Off)
Introduction

Francesco Ricciardi
The Interrogation of Pulcinella

Riccardo Cordiferro
Four Poems and a Dramatic Play

Eduardo Migliaccio
Five Poems

Tony Ferrazzano
Three Poems

Giovanni De Rosalia
Nofrio on the Telephone

Armando Cennerazzo
Child Abductors, or The Black Hand

Gino Calza
Two Poems

Michele Pane
The Americanized Calabrian

Achille Almerini
Dante's Colony

Pasquale Seneca
The Pichinicco

Vincenzo Campora
Spaghetti House

Alfredo Borgianini
Two Poems

Rodolfo Valentino
Six Poems

Silvio Picchianti
Domestic Court

Ario Flamma
Leaves in the Whirlwind

Part IV. Anarchists, Socialists, Fascists, and Antifascists
Introduction

Giuseppe Ciancabilla
The First of May

Simplicio Righi
Two Poems

Luigi Galleani
Methods of the Socialist Struggle

Umberto Postiglione
An Editorial and a Dramatic Play

Ludovico M. Caminita
A Letter and a Story

Giuseppe Bertelli
Six Poems

Alberico Molinari
Brief Discourses

Arturo Giovannitti
Four Poems

Efrem Bartoletti
Four Poems

Vincenzo Vacirca
The Fire

Onorio RuotoloIn
Union Square Park

Agostino De Biasi
Fascism in America

Rosario Ingargiola
The Lighthouse

Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni
To Mussolini, the Immortal

Rosario Di Vita
Two Poems 000

Umberto Liberatore
Two Poems

Armando Borghi
The Failed Ambush

Virgilia D'Andrea
Remembering Michele Schirru

Raffaele Schiavina
What to Do?

Carlo Tresca
Two Articles

Ezio Taddei
Once Again Tresca

Part V. Integrated Apocalyptics
Introduction

Lisi Cecilia Cipriani
A Story and a Poem

Angelo Patri
A Schoolmaster of the Great City

Silvio VillaViola
Constantine PanunzioIn an Immigrant Community

Emanuel Carnevali
The Day of Summer

Pascal D'Angelo
Son of Italy

Francesco Ventresca
Incipit Vita Nova

Louis Forgione
The Torture of the Soul

Giuseppe Cautela
Miracle

Edward Corsi
A Picture of 1907

Notes
Bibliography
Index
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