{"id":1408,"date":"2019-11-15T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/italianamericana.ysu.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2019-11-15T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T16:46:09","slug":"volume-xxxvi-no-1-winter-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/italianamericana\/?p=1408","title":{"rendered":"Volume XXXVI No. 1 Winter 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"leaders\">\n<li>Letter from the Editor\u00a0 1<\/li>\n<li>Notes on Contributors\u00a0 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>Articles<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"leaders\">\n<li>A Calabrian in Minnesota: The Tales of James Mancina<br \/>\n<em>Matthew Reza\u00a0 <\/em>9<\/li>\n<li>Dual US-Italian Citizenship: New World Italians Come Full Circle<br \/>\n<em>Susan Perri\u00a0 <\/em>29<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>Interviews<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"leaders space list\">\n<li>Stephen Sartarelli<br \/>\n<em>Carla Simonini\u00a0 <\/em>45<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>Poetry<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"leaders space list\">\n<li>Ned Balbo\n<ul>\n<li>Essay, \u201cThe Song I Sing and the Book I Read\u201d: Becoming Italian American\u00a0 55<\/li>\n<li>For a Mother Born During the Great War\u00a0 57<\/li>\n<li>A New Moon for Neptune\u00a0 58<\/li>\n<li>Wren\u00a0 60<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Fourth of Seven<br \/>\n<em>Simona Carini\u00a0 <\/em>61<\/li>\n<li>Anatomy Lesson<br \/>\n<em>Marian Calabro\u00a0 <\/em>62<\/li>\n<li>OCD<br \/>\n<em>Ron Pavoldi\u00a0 <\/em>63<\/li>\n<li>In the Dark<br \/>\n<em>Michael Palma\u00a0 <\/em>64<\/li>\n<li>Ol\u2019 Blue Eyes<br \/>\n<em>Connie Post\u00a0 <\/em>65<\/li>\n<li>On Maria Blanchard\u2019s \u201cPortrait of Regina Barahona\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Diane Kendig\u00a0 <\/em>66<\/li>\n<li>For My Brother Sal<br \/>\n<em>John Barrale\u00a0 <\/em>67<\/li>\n<li>The Shepherd of Filizzolo<br \/>\n<em>Gil Fagiani\u00a0 <\/em>68<\/li>\n<li>Kind<br \/>\n<em>Dona Luongo Stein\u00a0 <\/em>69<\/li>\n<li>What I Will Tell Our Future Child<br \/>\n<em>Christine DeSimone\u00a0 <\/em>70<\/li>\n<li>Parenting an Emily Dickinson<br \/>\n<em>David Albano\u00a0 <\/em>71<\/li>\n<li>Haven<br \/>\n<em>Tina Tocco\u00a0 <\/em>72<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>Fiction &amp; Creative Non-fiction<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"leaders\">\n<li>How Marco Got the Business<br \/>\n<em>David Anthony Natale\u00a0 <\/em>75<\/li>\n<li>The Cascino Stories<br \/>\n<em>Stefania Patinella\u00a0 <\/em>87<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"leaders\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul class=\"leaders\">\n<li>Review Essay: The Old Man and the Motel: Gay Talese\u2019s America The Voyeur\u2019s Motel by Gay Talese and High Notes: Selected Writings by Gay Talese<br \/>\n<em>Review by Michael J. LaRosa\u00a0 <\/em>97<\/li>\n<li>Performing Gender and Violence in Contemporary Transnational Contexts edited by Maria Anita Stefanelli<br \/>\n<em>Review by Maria Galli Stampino\u00a0 <\/em>100<\/li>\n<li>Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania: Allies on the Home Front, 1944-1945 by Flavio G. Conti and Alan R. Perry<br \/>\n<em>Review by Michele Monserrati\u00a0 <\/em>101<\/li>\n<li>Gli indiani Pellerossa Abnaki e la loro storia by Eugenio Vetromile. Trans. by Aldo Magagnino.<br \/>\n<em>Review by Vincent A. Lapomarda, S.J.\u00a0 <\/em>103<\/li>\n<li>Baltimore\u2019s Little Italy: Heritage and History of the Neighborhood by Suzanna Rosa Molino<br \/>\n<em>Review by Robert Casillo\u00a0 <\/em>104<\/li>\n<li>Anthony F. Ciampi (1816-1893): The Jesuit Who Saved the College of the Holy Cross by Vincent A. Lapomarda, S.J.<br \/>\n<em>Review by Joshua C. Davies\u00a0 <\/em>105<\/li>\n<li>After Identity: Migration, Critique, Italian American Culture by Peter Carravetta<br \/>\n<em>Review by Chiara Fabbian\u00a0 <\/em>107<\/li>\n<li>Hemingway and Italy: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives edited by Mark Cirino and Mark P. Ott<br \/>\n<em>Review by Clorinda Donato\u00a0 <\/em>108<\/li>\n<li>Rope and Soap Lynchings of Italians in the United States by Patrizia Salvetti<br \/>\n<em>Review by Patrizia Fama Stahle\u00a0 <\/em>110<\/li>\n<li>The 13th Sunday after Pentecost: Poems by Joseph Bathanti<br \/>\n<em>Review by Laura Wittman\u00a0 <\/em>111<\/li>\n<li>Il cucchiaio trafugato by Angelo Spina<br \/>\n<em>Review by Francesco Corigliano\u00a0 <\/em>113<\/li>\n<li>The Short List of Certainties by Lois Roma-Deeley<br \/>\n<em>Review by John Paul Russo\u00a0 <\/em>115<\/li>\n<li>The Hunger Saint by Olivia Kate Cerrone<br \/>\n<em>Review by Tera Reid-Olds\u00a0 <\/em>116<\/li>\n<li>Second Thoughts by Dennis Barone<br \/>\n<em>Review by Maria Terrone\u00a0 <\/em>118<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Carla A. Simonini<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px\">Dear Readers,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px\">Welcome to the Winter 2018 issue of Italian Americana! This issue is anchored by articles that are linked thematically by the transmission of Italian culture across generations by means of oral traditions. Our first article by Matthew Reza, \u201cA Calabrian in Minnesota: The Tales of James Mancina,\u201d analyzes the oral narratives of James Mancina, an Italian of Calabrian origin who immigrated to Eveleth, Minnesota, in 1912, whose story-telling rooted in Italian folk and fairy tales has been documented in journals and within monographic studies. Reza explores a number of Mancina\u2019s stories and relates them to their possible Italian origins, noting how Mancina evolved and adapted pre-existing narratives so as to reflect the immigrant experience. Susan Perri, meanwhile, in her article \u201cDual US-Italian Citizenship: New World Italians Come Full Circle\u201d provides a practical guide for how US citizens of Italian descent can obtain Italian citizenship by \u201creasserting their claim to bloodline.\u201d Far beyond a \u201chow-to\u201d guide, Perri\u2019s article also explores the ties between citizenship, cul-ture, and identity, illustrating how the desire to be recognized as a dual US-Italian citizen is often rooted in an attachment to one\u2019s ancestral ori-gins maintained through family oral histories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px\">For this issue\u2019s interview, I had the opportunity to speak with award-winning translator and poet, and Youngstown native, Stephen Sartarelli, best known as the English translator of the Inspector Montalbano series of novels by best-selling Sicilian crime-writer Andrea Camilleri. Last October Sartarelli presented to students and community members at Youngstown State University and the University of Pittsburgh, sharing insights into the art of translation and his personal professional journey, through which he has moved across different countries and cultures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px\">Poetry editor Maria Terrone has chosen to feature the work of Ned Balbo, who in his opening essay thanks not only Terrone but also former poetry editors Dana Gioia and Michael Palma for having welcomed his work to the pages of Italian Americana in previous years. Michael Pal-ma, in turn, graces the pages of this issue with an original poem, \u201cIn the Dark,\u201d which is showcased along with poems from eleven other Italian American poets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px\">For our fiction and creative nonfiction section, Christine Palamidessi Moore has chosen two strong works that complement each other in tone and style. The first is a hard-hitting work of crime fiction, \u201cHow Marco Got the Business\u201d by David Anthony Natale, and the second is a more sentimental piece of memoir titled \u201cThe Cascino Stories\u201d in which writer Stefania Patinella recounts a journey to Italy undertaken in her twenties that was inspired by her desire to reconnect to \u201cthe soil that shaped the long line of my grandmother\u2019s nose and my uncle\u2019s watery, almond eyes.\u201d She ends up on the land of Signor Cascino, one of the oldest and only organic farmers in his region of Sicily. \u201cThe first time I laid eyes on Cascino\u2019s land,\u201d she writes, \u201cwas maybe the first time I experienced magic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px\">Finally, and once again under the skillful direction of John Paul Rus-so, our Book Review section features reviews of thirteen different works published in the US and Italy and representative of a wide spectrum of genres, from historical investigations to a mystery novel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px\">Once again my heartfelt gratitude goes out to the entire editorial team, especially my editorial assistant Thomas Slagle, who continues to be the engine behind our production and editorial process. I extend a spe-cial welcome, also, to our new student assistant, Shanon Maple, who joined the Italian Americana staff this fall and provided hands-on assis-tance in producing the current issue, including the layout of our 2018 cover, which features a photo of the life-sized sculpture \u201cThe Next Jour-ney Begins\u201d by Poland, OH-based artist Tom Antonishak. The bronze sits outside of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Basilica in Youngstown, OH, where it was inaugurated in 2008 to commemorate the Italian ethnic parish\u2019s 100th anniversary. Italian Americana thanks sculptor Tom Antonishak and the basilica\u2019s pastor Monsignor Michael J. Cariglio Jr., for permis-sion to use the bronze\u2019s image on our cover, and also photographer Dom Fonce for having taking the original photos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px\">We thank all of our readers for their continued support and hope that you enjoy the current issue!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px\">Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px\">Carla A. 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