Voices of Italian America
Subtitle: A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780823239733
Subjects: Italian american literature; Italian literature, history and criticism; American literature, history and criticism; Italians, united states; United states, intellectual life; United states, in literature
Description: This book presents for the first time in English a substantial choice of texts (excerpts from novels, short stories, memoirs, and poems), written in Italian by first-generation immigrants. Marazzi, a specialist in Italo-American cultural relations, introduces here the lives and works of a number of novelists, poets, activists, and journalists, who wrote for the myriad of newspapers published all around the country. There are authors of serialized novels (the "mysteries" of downtown Manhattan), N.Y.P.D. cops, and nationalists extolling the virtues of the Duce, as well as red anarchists, ladies, and "flappers" from the Italian American middle class, and proletarian rhetoricians.