Marazzi Through the Periscope

Changing Culture, Italian America
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8862-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Italian/American Culture

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marazzi, Martino

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Changing Culture

1. A Hard Rome's A-Gonna Fall: Roman Sonnets, Sicilian Sulfur, and American Ballads

2. Changing Culture: European Immigrants and New York City Literature, 1870–1940

3. "Our brother Dante": Dantesque Reappropriations in Italian America

Part II: Transitional Modes of Italian American Letters

4. All the Words That Are (Not) Fit to Print: Notes on the "Illiterature" of the Italian Emigration

5. Questioning the Traditionalism of Italian American Literature

6. Kings of Harlem: Garibaldi Lapolla and the "Grand" Gennaro

7. I Am(s): Strategies of Acceptance and Denial

8. Reading Robert Viscusi

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martino Marazzi is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Milan in Italy. His many books include Voices of Italian America: A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology.