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Voices of Italian America: A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology

Voices of Italian America: A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology

Marazzi, Martino
Goldstein, Ann

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Literary CriticismGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 082323973X
ISBN13: 9780823239733
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Nov 1 2011
Pages: 343
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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

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