Literary Nonfiction. In this unique volume of essays, three Italian-Canadian-American scholars of the post-WWII diaspora, who among them span a wide expanse of geographic and cultural ground, reflect on the meaning of triangulated identities. What a...
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Fiction. Italian American Studies. "... Ciabattari brims with brio in this fanciful, cannily humorous look at the jungles of darkest Manhattan. Twenty-one brief 'dreams' or vignettes introduce Rizzoli, a modern Everyman who tries to do his work, ret...
Literary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. Translated by Mark Pietralunga. Since its first publication in 1937, ITALIANS IN AMERICA has been recognized as one of the most important studies on the Italian immigrant community in North America of i...
Fiction. Drama. Italian American Studies. "Lo Cascio's OTHELLO creates an original mixture of contemporary and timeless concerns in an original play about the impossibility of men and women to understand each other."—from the introduction
Fiction. Italian American Studies. "Ever wonder about the step-by-step of the lives of forebearers in homelands lost, left & returned to? About what life was really like in all fullness & detail, real & frail, on both ends? Wish for unforced narrati...
Fiction. Italian American Studies. "In the second collection of vignettes featuring middle-aged New Yorker Rizzoli, Ciabattari skillfully captures the nature of dreams, using a mixture of reality and surrealism to reveal our common fears and desires...
Poetry. Italian American Studies. Women's Studies. "At the core of this elegantly crafted book is a riveting cautionary tale about heartbreak, disaffection, and visceral family dysfunction that soars to agonizing life as a result of the poet's preci...
Literary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. ". . . A strong sense of commonality is that necessary ingredient for the population to cohere and this to progress: for the study of all things Italian/American to become part and parcel of the dominan...
Poetry. "For decades, artist B. Amore has elegantly imagined and chronicled the Italian American experience, turning artifacts into talismans and revealing how the past continues to pulse within us. What a joy to see her artist's eye turn to poetry....
Fiction. Women's Studies. Italian American Studies. "THE END OF APHRODITE explores the relationship between artist and muse, between the subjects of myths and the keepers of them. This is a beautifully rendered work narrated by a collection of chara...
Literary Nonfiction. Film. Italian American Studies. "For those who believe that the choices involved in subtitling or dubbing foreign films are merely physical in nature—fitting the written words within the borders of the photogram, synchronizing t...
Literary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. Jewish Studies. "Just as philosophy does not make progress by resolving eternal problems, but rather by rigorously meditating on particular facts, procedures and methods, and leaving the general systemi...
Literary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. "Linda L. Carroll invites us to reconsider Jefferson's relationship with Italian thought and culture in a more expansive and encompassing manner. Going beyond Filippo Mazzei to Boccaccio's Decameron and...