""Title Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Novel of the Italian in America""; ""Narrative and Press: The Ventura “Case�""; ""Mysteries in Little Italy: The Serial Novels of Ciambelli and Stanco""; ""Sentimental Realism: Pallavicini, Branchi, and the Romance Novel of""; ""Memoir and Commitment: Cianfarra, Caminita, Tresca, Vacirca, and Others""; ""Parodies and the “Black� of the End: Seneca, Fiaschetti, Altavilla, and Dr. Daniele""; ""Envoi""; ""Anthology""; ""A Nineteenth-Century Antecedent:""
""Bernardino Ciambelli: The Father of the Italian American Immigrant Novel""""Menotti Pellegrino: Self-Made Mystery Writer""; ""Italo Stanco: The Self-Conscious Beginning of a New Tradition""; ""Caterina Avella: The Roaring Twenties""; ""Dora Colonna: Immigration from a Woman�s Perspective""; ""Eugenio Camillo Branchi, or the Well-Crafted Story""; ""An Immigrant�s Memoir: Camillo Cianfarra""; ""A Serialized Socialist Novel""; ""Red Scare: An Italian Anarchist Is Busted""; ""A Take-off on Southern Localism: The Cartoon Characters of Pasquale Seneca""; ""The Tales of an N.Y.P.D. Cop""
""Non-Adjustment: The “Faraway People� of Corrado Altavilla""""2. Stowaway on Board: Ezio Taddei""; ""The Life and Works of an Unorthodox Individual""; ""Constant Narratives""; ""Between Expressiveness and Conformity""; ""Prison, Poverty, and Critique of the United States""; ""Anthology""; ""Scenes from the Inferno: Ezio Taddei""; ""3 The New World of the Second Generation: Pietro di Donato and John Fante""; ""Fante and Fantology""; ""A Step Back""; ""Anthology""; ""Pietro di Donato,""; ""4 Poetry of the Italian Americans""; ""Poetry in the Immigrant Communities""
""The Multiform Presence of Riccardo Cordiferro""""Giovannitti, the Bard""; ""The Sonneteer Righi""; ""The “Civil� and Traditionalist Poems of the Red Bartoletti""; ""Dialect Poets: Mennella and Borgianini""; ""The “Harmonies and Dissonances� of Ruotolo""; ""Anthology""; ""Cordiferro-Ironheart: Versatile Versifier""; ""The Bard Arturo Giovannitti""; ""A Sonnet on Construction Workers""; ""Efrem Bartoletti, the Miner-Poet""; ""Neapolitan Rhapsody""; ""Roman Dialect""; ""The Easy Poems of Onorio Ruotolo""; ""5 Prose of Testimony: the Color Line""; ""Colors and Names of the Freedmen""
""“Kneeling at the feet of a Negro�""""Labor Conditions and Plans in the Southern States""; ""Coda""; ""Anthology""; ""A Black and White View from the Sixties""; ""6 At Ellis Island""; ""Anthology""; ""Edward Corsi,""; ""7 Italian Americans and Italian Writers""; ""Vindication of Ignorance""; ""An Interpretative Perusal""; ""Tradition""; ""Crisis and Silence""; ""A Look at the Present""; ""Notes""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1. The Novel of the Italian in America""; ""Chapter 2. Stowaway on Board""; ""Chapter 3. The New World of the Second Generation""
