Representing Sacco and Vanzetti
By: edited by Jerome H. Delamater and Mary Anne Trasciatti
Contributors: Delamater, Jerome; Trasciatti, Mary Anne
Edition: 1st ed
Series: Italian and Italian American studies; Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781403967381
Subjects: Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921; Anarchists -- United States -- History; Minorities -- United States -- History
Description: "The contributors to this volume, from a range of academic disciplines and artistic traditions, illuminate previously unexplored aspects of the internationally renowned Sacco and Vanzetti case. Rather than take up the question of whether the two Italian immigrant anarchists were guilty, the essays in this book analyze literary-, artistic-, and mass-mediated representations of Sacco and Vanzetti, linking them to stereotypes of so-called "foreigners" and "others" that prevailed in the 1920s, and interrogating those images that prevail in our own age."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The Sacco and Vanzetti case, 1920-2004 / Mary Anne Trasciatti and Jerome H. Delamater; title: The beautiful idea : Italian anarchism between realism and utopia / Stanislao G. Pugliese; title: The American campaign to save Sacco and Vanzetti / Mary Anne Trasciatti; title: Sacco and Vanzetti : the Italian American legacy / Fred Gardaphe; title: Ben Shahn and The passion of Sacco and Vanzetti revisited / Alejandro Anreus; title: "Hearts that grow not cold" : structures of feeling and Vanzetti's beloved anarchy / Daniel Lang/Levitsky; title: Unifying the cultural left : Edith Segal, Emma Goldman, and the completion of Marc Blitzstein's Sacco and Vanzetti / Leonard Lehrman; title: Historical documentary : problems, purposes, and ideals : a conversation with Peter Miller; title: Lessons from Sacco and Vanzetti for a post-9/11 world / Jane L. Twomey; title: From Sacco and Vanzetti to Mumia Abu-Jamal : is innocence irrelevant? / Eliot Lee Grossman; title: "The case that will not die" : the legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti / Howard Zinn