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Summary:

Allows readers to see American society through the eyes of Italian-speaking immigrants.

Table of Contents:

• Chronicle of the Great Exodus. To the readers / Carlo Barsotti ; Shine? ... Shine? / Ferdinando Fontana ; For humanity / Luigi Roversi ; The biography of a bootblack / Rocco Corresca ; Little Italy / Gaetano Conte ; How it feels to represent a problem / Gino Carlo Speranza ; The children of emigrants / Alberto Pecorini ; Neither foreigners nor Americans / Alberto Tarchiani ; Public service is my motto / Al Capone
• Colonial chronicles.
• Peppino / Luigi Donato Ventura ; The destruction of San Francisco, April 18, 1906 / Fanny Vanzi-Mussini ; The five points / Adolfo Rossi ; To Giuseppe Giacosa / Giuseppe Antonio Cadicamo ; Two stories / Edoardo Michalangeli ; A story, sketches, and a play / Bernardino Ciambelli ; An emigrant's diary / Camillo Cianfarra ; Two poems / Thomas Fragale ; Two poems / Antonio Calitri ; Three poems / Angelo Rosati ; The poor woman / Calicchu Pucciu ; The little Madonna of the Italians / Paolo Pallavicini ; Bohemian and detective / Italo Stanco ; Brunori's fortune / Ernesto Valentini ; Hold up! / Eugenio Camillo Branchi ; The two girlfriends / Dora Colonna ; The flapper / Caterina Maria Avella ; Seven poems / Severina Magni ; The hula hula flag / Antonio Marinoni ; The verdict / Corrado Altavilla
• On stage (and Off). The interrogation of Pulcinella / Francesco Ricciardi ; Four poems and a dramatic play / Riccardo Cordiferro ; Five poems / Eduardo Migliaccio ; Three poems / Tony Ferrazzano ; Nofrio on the telephone / Giovanni de Rosalia ; Child abductors : or, the black hand / Armando Cennerazzo ; Two poems / Gino Calza ; The Americanized Calabrian / Michele Pane ; Dante's colony / Achille Almerini ; Spaghetti house / Vincenzo Campora ; Two poems / Alfredo Borgianini ; Six poems / Rodolfo Valentino ; Domestic court / Silvio Picchianti ; Leaves in the whirlwind / Ario Flamma
• Anarchists, Socialists, Fascists, and Antifascists. The first of May / Giuseppe Ciancabilla ; Two poems / Simplicio Righi ; Methods of the Socialist struggle / Luigi Galleani ; An editorial and a dramatic play / Umberto Postiglione ; A letter and a story / Ludovico M. Caminita ; Six poems / Giuseppe Bertelli ; Brief discourses / Alberico Molinari ; Four poems / Arturo Giovannitti ; Four poems / Efrem Bartoletti ; The fire / Vincenzo Vacirca ; In Union Square Park / Onorio Ruotolo ; Fascism in America / Agostino de Biasi ; The lighthouse / Rosario Ingargiola ; To Mussolini, the immortal / Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni ; Two poems / Rosario di Vita ; Two poems / Umberto Liberatore ; The failed ambush / Armando Borghi ; Remembering Michele Schirru / Virgilia D'andrea ; What to do? / Raffaele Schiavina ; Two articles / Carlo Tresca ; Once again Tresca / Ezio Taddei
• Integrated apocalyptics. A story and a poem / Lisi Cecilia Cipriani ; A schoolmaster of the great city / Angelo Patri ; Viola / Silvio Villa ; In an immigrant community / Constantine Maria Panunzio ; The day of summer / Emanuel Carnevali ; Son of Italy / Pascal D'angelo ; Incipit vita nova / Francesco Ventresca ; The torture of the soul / Louis Forgione ; Miracle / Giuseppe Cautela ; A picture of 1907 / Edward Corsi.

Contributors:

Durante, Francesco, 1952- , editor

Viscusi, Robert , editor

Tamburri, Anthony Julian , editor

Periconi, James J. , editor

Languages:

English
Italian

Language Notes:

Translated from the Italian.

Main Work:

Italoamericana (English)

Alternate Titles:

Literature of the great migration, 1880-1943

Subjects:

Italian Americans — History — Sources

Italians — United States — History — Sources

Italian American literature

Italian Americans

Italians

Italy

United States

Genres:

Sources

History

General Notes:

Previously published as: Italoamericana : storia e letteratura degli italiani negli Stati Uniti, 1880-1943 (Milano : Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, ©2005).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 939-986) and index.

Physical Description:

xxx, 997 pages ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

E184.I8 I847213 2014

ISBNs:

0823260615
9780823260614
0823260623 (paperback)
9780823260621 (paperback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2014931287

OCLC Numbers:

860944159