The imagined immigrant
Subtitle: images of Italian emigration to the United States between 1890 and 1924
By: Ilaria Serra.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838641989
Subjects: Italians -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Italians -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Italians -- United States -- Public opinion -- History.; Italians -- United States -- Biography.; Immigrants -- United States -- Public opinion -- History.; Public opinion -- United States -- History.; Interviews -- United States.; American letters.; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.; Italy -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Work titles: Immagini di un immaginario.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: pt. 1. "The promised land" : the Italian immigrant from the American point of view; value: Two newspapers look at the immigrant; value: Cinema casts the immigrant; value: pt. 2. "The immigrant tale" : immigrant self-images and images of America; value: The immigrants write : the letters; value: Autobiographies and the imago of self; value: The interviews : the shaky voice of immigration.