“The Song I Sing and the Book I Read”: Becoming Italian American In “My Father’s Music” (Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: Creative Nonfiction Collects New Essays by Italian-American Writers, Other Press, 2006), I examined the history of my adoptive father Carmine’s favorite songs and performers, plus the reasons why, prior to my teen years, …
The deadline for our Winter 2022 issue is fast approaching! Please submit your creative works in the genres of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction (memoir) by Monday, November 15, 2021. Submissions must be by writers of Italian heritage on either side but can be on any subject and in any style. For full guidelines, click on …
Table of Contents Letter from the Editor………………………………………………………………… v Notes on Contributors………………………………………………………………. ix ArtIcles Chicago to Islam: Assimilation Figures in Five Stories by Tony Ardizzone Fred Misurella………………………………………………………………… 1 “Let’s have a glass of vino”: Italian immigrants, wine and community in John Fante’s The Brotherhood of the Grape Sostene Massimo Zangari………………………………………………….. 7 Praying Toward Acceptance: Aspects of …
Table of Contents Letter from the Editor………………………………………………………………… v Notes on Contributors………………………………………………………………. ix Articles Florence Scala: A Disowned Community Leader by Sandro Corso………………………………………………………………… 99 “Curious Victories”: The Famous Murder Case of Maria Barbella and Italian- American Women in the Press Between the 1890s and 1910s by Marina Cacioppo………………………………………………………….. 119 Poetry Introduction by Maria Terrone……………………………………………………………… 141 “Leopardi’s Lament: …
Table of Contents Letter from the Editor………………………………………………………………… v Notes on Contributors………………………………………………………………. ix Articles Notions of Space and Questions of Identity: Italian Americans in Tina De Rosa’s Novel Paper Fish (1980) Sirpa Salenius………………………………………………………………….. 1 Giuseppe De Simone: from Mirabella Eclano to Seattle Raffaele Di Zenzo…………………………………………………………… 27 Preserving, Remembering, and Commemorating the Italian American Experience in the …
Table of Contents Letter from the Editor………………………………………………………………… v Notes on Contributors………………………………………………………………. ix Interview and Essay Stephen Sartarelli—Catching Up Joan Leotta………………………………………………………………….. 105 Essay: An Excursion to Tindari Joan Leotta………………………………………………………………….. 109 Articles Nonsense or Riddle? Elusive Genre in Giuseppe Pitrè’s Sicilian Folktales Joseph Russo……………………………………………………………….. 115 A US Feminist in “the Land of Remorse”: Re-considering the Southern Italian …
Table of Contents Letter from the Editor………………………………………………………………… v Notes on Contributors………………………………………………………………. ix Articles From Drummer Boy to Missionary: Culture, Religion, and Identity in Antonio Andrea Arrighi’s The Story of Antonio, the Galley-Slave (1911) Leonardo Buonomo…………………………………………………………… 1 Modern Machiavelli Anthony Santaro…………………………………………………………….. 19 Embodying Italian-American Ethnicity in Frank Lentricchia’s The Music of the Inferno Nanyi Zhou……………………………………………………………………. 29 …
Table of Contents Letter from the Editor………………………………………………………………… v Notes on Contributors………………………………………………………………. ix Articles Notes on the Narrative Function of Laughter in Sweet Hope Cristina Di Maio…………………………………………………………… 113 Robert Ferro’s and Felice Picano’s Italian Journeys through the Eyes of Max and Felice Luca Lanzilotta…………………………………………………………….. 127 Reminiscences of Two Artists Carol Bonomo Albright………………………………………………….. 143 Tribute to Lawrence …
The deadline for our Winter 2022 issue is fast approaching! Please submit your creative works in the genres of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction (memoir) by Monday, November 15, 2021. Submissions must be by writers of Italian heritage on either side but can be on any subject and in any style. For full guidelines, click on …
We are currently accepting submissions of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction (including personal essays and works of memoir) for our Summer 2023 issue. Our deadline for consideration is November 30, 2022. Please click on the “Author’s Guidelines” tab on the top menu for complete instructions on how to forward us your work.