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Through the Periscope

Changing Culture, Italian America

By: Martino Marazzi

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Through the Periscope

Changing Culture, Italian America

By: Martino Marazzi

The constant dialogue between literary forms of the Old and the New World is the core concern of the essays in Through the Periscope, which examine these ever-changing historical, intellectual, and psychological landscapes through the lens of Italian American culture. Moving beyond Little Italy, the book widens the spectrum of "pure" immigrant studies. It analyzes the longue durée of the revolutionary energies of 1848, an arc that leads from Margaret Fuller to Bob Dylan via the Great Migration of European peoples and languages, as well as the merging of various immigrant voices in the "changing culture" of turn-of-the-century New York. It reclaims the importance of Dante for Italian American writers and follows the metamorphosis of a Romance language dense in masterworks and oral nuances through the multiple signs of a new "illiterature." Points of arrival are both the majestic proletarian novels of the 1930s and a contemporary poem like Robert Viscusi's Ellis Island. Martino Marazzi's volume underlines the richness of such an epic cultural transformation and its fundamental importance for a more thorough understanding of Euro-American relations.

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State University of New York Press

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1438488629

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9781438488622

Voices of Italian America

A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology

By: Martino Marazzi

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A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology

By: Martino Marazzi

Voices of Italian America presents a top-rate authoritative study and anthology of the italian-language literature written and published in the United States from the heydays of the Great Migration (1880–1920) to the almost definitive demise of the cultural world of the first generation soon before and after World War II. The volume resurrects the neglected and even forgotten territory of a nationwide “Little Italy” where people wrote, talked, read, and consumed the various forms of entertainment mostly in their native Italian language, in a complex interplay with native dialects and surrounding American English. The anthological sections include excerpts from the ethnically tinged thrillers by Tuscan-born first-comer Bernardino Ciambelli, as well as the first short stories by Italian American women, set in the Gilded Age. The fiction of political activists such as Carlo Tresca coexists with the hardboiled autobiography of Italian American cop Mike Fiaschetti, fighting against the Mafia. Voices of Italian America presents new material by English-speaking classics such as Pietro di Donato and John Fante, and a selection of poetry by a great bilingual voice, the champion of the “masses” and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) poet Arturo Giovannitti, and by a lesserknown, self-taught, satirical versifier, Riccardo Cordiferro/Ironheart. Controversial documents on the difficult interracial relations between Italian Americans and African Americans live side by side with the first poignant chronicles from Ellis Island. This study sheds light on the “fabrication” of a new culture of immigrant origins—pliable, dynamic, constantly shifting and transforming itself—while focusing on stories, genres, rhythms, the “human touch” contributed by literature in its wider sense. Ultimately, through a rich sample of significant texts covering various aspects of the immigrant experience, Voices of Italian America offers the reader a literary history of Italian American culture.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823245721

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9780823245727

Through the Periscope: Changing Culture, Italian America

By: Martino Marazzi

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Offers a wider approach to Italian American culture, one that stresses both its material, urban components and the creativity of its formal literary codes.

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Suny Italian/American Culture

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1438488610

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Voices of Italian America

A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology

By: Martino Marazzi

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A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology

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Through the Periscope

Through the Periscope

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Voices of Italian America

Through the Periscope: Changing Culture, Italian America

Through the Periscope: Changing Culture, Italian America

Voices of Italian America

Voices of Italian America

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