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 …
Table of Contents Letter from the Editor 107 Notes on Contributors 111 Articles “That’s Your Uncle? He’s White!” “Yeah, A Long Time”: Negotiating Whiteness in the Rocky/Creed Series Stephen Hock 117 White Ethnic Racial Backlash and Black Millennial Counter-narrative: Intersections of Race and Masculinity in Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Series and Ryan Kyle Coogler’s Creed Jessica …
Table of Contents Letter from the Editor 1 Notes on Contributors 3 Articles A Calabrian in Minnesota: The Tales of James Mancina Matthew Reza 9 Dual US-Italian Citizenship: New World Italians Come Full Circle Susan Perri 29 Interviews Stephen Sartarelli Carla Simonini 45 Poetry Ned Balbo Essay, “The Song I Sing and the Book I …
Table of Contents Letter from the Editor1 Notes on Contributors3 Articles Memories of Work and Definition of Community: The Making of Italian Americans in the Mahoning Valley/ Donna M.DeBlasio & Martha I. Pallante9 Opera as a Nationalistic Weapon: The Erection of the Monument to Giuseppe Verdi in New York City/ Stefano Luconi37 Poetry Featured Poet …
Table of Contents Letter from the Editor123 Notes on Contributors127 Articles Il Cittadino on Fascism: The Response of the Greater Youngstown, OH Italian Americana Community to Mussolini’s Rise to Power/ Ryan Antonucci133 Fictionalizing Carlo Tresca: Jerre Mangione’s Night Search/ Francesca de Lucia143 Dangers in Imagining Italy and Italians: John Fante’s Fantasy and Films/ Dennis Barone151 …