The status of interpretation in Italian American studies
Subtitle: proceedings of the first Forum in Italian American Criticism (FIAC)
By: edited by Jerome Krase
Contributors: Krase, Jerome
Series: Filibrary series -- no. 30; Filibrary series -- no. 30.
Publisher: Forum Italicum Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stony Brook, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781893127326
Subjects: Ethnic identity; Congresses; Italian Americans in literature; Italian Americans; History and criticism; American literature; Italian American authors
Notes: The Forum was held at Stony Brook University, New York, in October, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Conference rationale / -- Peter Carravetta -- Introduction / -- Jerome Krase; title: The ice margin  -- Robert Viscusi; title: Commedia della morte :  theories of life and death in Italian American culture  -- Fred Gardaphè; title: Reflections on Italian Americans and "otherness"  -- Anthony Julian Tamburri; title: Renewing the conceptual dimensions of Italian-American writing and scholarship  -- William Boelhower; title: Via the margin of the poetic  -- Djelal Kadir; title: Questioning the traditionalism of Italian American literature  -- Martino Marazzi; title: Interpreting the Italian look :  visual semiotics of ethnic authenticity  -- Jerome Krase -- Creolizing the lack :  interpreting race and racism in Italian America / -- Francesca Canadé Sautman; title: Whiteness and ethnicity in Italian-American historiography  -- Stefano Luconi; title: Theorizing Italian American history : the search for an historiographical paradigm  -- Gerald Meyer; title: The dog catches his tail :  a critical reflection on the value of an Italian American identity in personal development  -- Donna Chirico; title: Re-interpreting Italian-American politics :  the role of ethnicity -- Ottorino Cappelli-- Index -- Contributors -- Conference program.