| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
ix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Critical studies in Italian America. |
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Critical studies in Italian America.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-246) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Listening with an accent / Joseph Sciorra -- "Sunday dinner? You had to be there!" The social significance of food in Italian Harlem, 1920-40 / Simone Cinotto -- Cuscuszu in Detroit, July 18, 1993 : memory, conflict, and Bella figura during a Sicilian-American meal / John Allan Cicala -- The Italian immigrant basement kitchen in North America / Lara Pascali -- Creative responses to the Italian immigrant experience in California : Baldassare Forestiere's underground gardens and Simon Rodia's Watts Towers / Kenneth Scambray -- Landscapes of order, landscapes of memory : Italian-American residential landscapes of the New York metropolitan region / Joseph J. Inguanti -- Locating memory : longing, place, and autobiography in Vincenzo Ancona's Sicilian poetry / Joseph Sciorra -- Valtaro musette : cross-cultural musical performance and repertoire among Northern Italians in New York / Marion S. Jacobson -- Italians in public memory : pageantry, power, and imagining in the "Italian American" in Reading, Pennsylvania / Joan L. Saverino -- Changing St. Gerard's clothes : an exercise in Italian-American Catholic devotion and material culture / Peter Savastano -- Cursed flesh : faith healers, black magic and (re-membering) death in a central Italian town / Luisa Del Giudice -- Imagining the Strega : folklore reclamation and the construction of Italian-American witchcraft / Sabina Magliocco. |
| Subject |
Italian Americans -- Folklore.
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Italian Americans -- Social life and customs.
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| Added Author |
Sciorra, Joseph.
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| ISBN |
9780823232659 cloth alkaline paper |
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0823232654 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780823232666 paperback alkaline paper |
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0823232662 paperback alkaline paper |
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