| Edition |
Revised edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 501 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Filmography: pages 475-482. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-474) and index. |
| Contents |
Creative Works -- Prose -- / Jerre Mangione -- David on Trial 15 -- / Daniela Gioseffi -- Rosa in Television Land 20 -- / Giose Rimanelli -- Memory of Two Tuesdays 29 -- / Helen Barolini -- Greener Grass 37 -- / Ben Morreale -- Monday Tuesday ... Never Come Sunday 44 -- / Tony Ardizzone -- Nonna 50 -- / Diana Cavallo -- Juniper Street Sketches 1 and 2 59 -- / Kenny Marotta -- Her Sister 67 -- / Lisa Ruffolo -- My Grandfather's Suit 79 -- / Salvatore La Puma -- Cakes 86 -- / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Angelina 89 -- / Joseph Papaleo -- Twenty-Nine Steps towards Re-adhesion 94 -- / Mary Bucci Bush -- Drowning 100 -- / Fred L. Gardaphe -- Mora Amore 108 -- / Anthony Valerio -- Last Godfather 116 -- Dante Society of Westchester 119 -- / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Piacere Conoserla: On Being an Italian-American 126 -- / Carole Maso -- Ghost Dance 131 -- Poetry -- / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Carrara, Looking Seaward 135 -- Old Italians Dying 135 -- / Diane di Prima -- Backyard 139 -- April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa 140 -- To My Father--2 141 -- Spirit of Romance 141 -- Rant 142 -- Prayer to the Mothers 144 -- Poem in Praise of My Husband (Taos) 145 -- / Felix Stefanile -- Dance at Saint Gabriel's 146 -- Wedding Photograph, 1915 146 -- Tony 147 -- Americanization of the Immigrant 149 -- Antonio Stefanile 149 -- How I Changed My Name, Felice 150 -- / Daniela Gioseffi -- Exotic Enemy 151 -- Cento at Dawn 152 -- Ants and Worms 152 -- Returning from Paradise We Stop at a Carnival 153 -- Aperture 154 -- Lily Shivers 155 -- As When Some Silenced Singer Hears Her Aria 156 -- / Sandra M. Gilbert -- In the Golden Sala 157 -- Summer Kitchen 158 -- / Jay Parini -- Piazza 160 -- Grandmother in Heaven 161 -- At the Ruined Monastery in Amalfi 162 -- Syrinx 163 -- Crops 163 -- / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Coda for Salvation 164 -- After Seeing Pierre Bonnard's The Breakfast Room 166 -- White Lies 166 -- Poem to Monica Ochtrap 167 -- Dark on Dark 168 -- Reunion at Berkeley 168 -- Betrayals 170 -- Eyes of Women 171 -- Arturo 172 -- / Jonathan Galassi -- Conscience 174 -- Montale's Grave 175 -- San Francesco 175 -- Morning Run 176 -- / Tina DeRosa -- Psalm of the Eucharist 179 -- / Kenneth Gangemi -- Easter Week in Rome 188 -- Winter Afternoon at the Museum 188 -- Bruno the Magnificent 189 -- In Praise of Radio 190 -- / Diane Raptosh -- Letters from Concetta's Palmist 193 -- Gloss on Uncle Louie's Fingernails 196 -- Casting Hand Shadows 197 -- Emanuela in the New World Garden 200 -- Pullover 202 -- / Jerome Mazzaro -- Lullaby 203 -- Early Afternoon, Chautauqua 203 -- Caves of Love 204 -- After Spring Storms 205 -- Flowers 206 -- Library Tapestry 206 -- Blue Haze 207 -- Buffalo/Stasis 208 -- / Mary Jo Bona -- Act of Remembering 209 -- Snoqualmie Falls, July 211 -- To Sacco and Vanzetti, In America 212 -- When Dead Men Speak 213 -- My Father's Sorrow 214 -- You Must Know This 215 -- / Adeodato Piazza Nicolai -- Triptych, Outside of Siena 216 -- Imaginary Slides besides Inside, upon Revere's Mare 218 -- Journeys Back Home 219 -- / Peter Carravetta -- Resurgence DNA and Other Crossover Motifs 221 -- / Phyllis Capello -- Language of Bed 225 -- Lioness Lullaby 226 -- Heat 226 -- Unborn Child as Poem 227 -- Rotting Fruit 227 -- Concentration Camp 228 -- Our Lady's Field--Vignettes 228 -- Who Threw the Stone? 229 -- Drive to the Country 230 -- In Memory of Jenny and Evelyn: Who Were Playing When the Stoop Collapsed 231 -- / Arthur L. Clements -- Dream of Flying 232 -- A Modern Odyssey 232 -- Appomattox 233 -- Why I Don't Speak Italian 236 -- Elegy 237 -- / Dana Gioia -- Photograph of My Mother as a Young Girl 239 -- Garden on the Campagna 239 -- Journey, the Arrival, and the Dream 240 -- An Emigre in Autumn 242 -- / Robert Viscusi -- Poems 243 -- / Joseph Tusiani -- Soliloquy of Francis Vigo 248 -- Ad Patrem 250 -- Iter ad Garganum 251 -- Ethnic Quartet 252 -- Critical Essays -- / Robert Viscusi -- A Literature Considering Itself: The Allegory of Italian America 257 -- / Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum -- Red, a little white, a lot of green, on a field of pink: a controversial design for an Italian component of a multicultural canon for the United States 274 -- / Fred L. Gardaphe -- From Oral Tradition to Written Word: Toward an Ethnographically Based Literary Criticism 286 -- / Frank Lentricchia -- Luigi Ventura and the Origins of Italian-American Fiction 299 -- / Franco Mulas -- Ethnic Language of Pietro Di Donato's Christ in Concrete 305 -- / Paolo A. Giordano -- From Southern Italian Emigrant to Reluctant American: Joseph Tusiani's Gente Mia and Other Poems 314 -- / Samuel J. Patti -- Recent Italian American Literature: The Case of John Fante 327 -- / John Paul Russo -- Choice of Gilbert Sorrentino 336 -- / Anthony Julian Tamburri -- Umbertina: The Italian/American Woman's Experience 355 -- / William Boelhower -- "Pago, Pago!": The Gift Principle in Contemporary Italian/American Narratives 372 -- / Robert Casillo -- Moments in Italian-American Cinema: From Little Caesar to Coppola and Scorsese 394 -- / Ben Lawton -- America through Italian/American Eyes: Dream or Nightmare? 417. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Italian American authors.
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Italian Americans -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Tamburri, Anthony Julian.
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Giordano, Paolo, 1948-
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Gardaphé, Fred L.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: From the margin. Rev. ed. West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2000 (OCoLC)606430106 |
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Online version: From the margin. Rev. ed. West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2000 (OCoLC)609936671 |
| ISBN |
1557531528 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781557531520 paperback alkaline paper |
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