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Italoamericana -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the American Edition -- Part I. Chronicle of the Great Exodus -- Introduction -- To the Readers -- Shine? . . . Shine? -- For Humanity -- The Biography of a Bootblack -- Little Italy -- How It Feels to Represent a Problem -- The Children of Emigrants -- Neither Foreigners nor Americans -- Public Service Is My Motto -- Part II. Colonial Chronicles -- Introduction -- Peppino -- The Destruction of San Francisco, April 18, 1906 -- The Five Points -- To Giuseppe Giacosa -- Two Stories -- A Story, Sketches, and a Play -- An Emigrant’s Diary -- Two Poems -- Two Poems -- Three Poems -- The Poor Woman -- The Little Madonna of the Italians -- Bohemian and Detective -- Brunori’s Fortune -- Hold Up! -- The Two Girlfriends -- The Flapper -- Seven Poems -- The Hula Hula Flag -- The Verdict -- Part III. On Stage (and Off ) -- Introduction -- The Interrogation of Pulcinella -- Four Poems and a Dramatic Play -- Five Poems -- Three Poems -- Nofrio on the Telephone -- Child Abductors, or, The Black Hand -- Two Poems -- The Americanized Calabrian -- Dante’s Colony -- The Pichinicco -- Spaghetti House -- Two Poems -- Six Poems -- Domestic Court -- Leaves in the Whirlwind -- Part IV. Anarchists, Socialists, Fascists, and Antifascists -- Introduction -- The First of May -- Two Poems -- Methods of the Socialist Struggle -- An Editorial and a Dramatic Play -- A Letter and a Story -- Six Poems -- Brief Discourses -- Four Poems -- Four Poems -- The Fire -- In Union Square Park -- Fascism in America -- The Lighthouse -- To Mussolini, the Immortal -- Two Poems -- Two Poems -- The Failed Ambush -- Remembering Michele Schirru -- What to Do? -- Two Articles -- Once Again Tresca -- Part V. Integrated Apocalyptics -- Introduction -- A Story and a Poem -- A Schoolmaster of the Great City -- Viola -- In an Immigrant Community -- The Day of Summer -- Son of Italy -- Incipit Vita Nova -- The Torture of the Soul -- Miracle -- A Picture of 1907 -- Bibliography -- Index 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.The original volume in Italian: Italoamericana Vol II: Storia e Letteratura degli Italiani negli Stati Uniti 1880-1943
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