{"product_id":"italoamericana-francesco-durante-9780823260621","title":"Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe highly-anticipated first English-language edition of the monumental critical anthology of writings from the golden age of the Italian disapora in America is now available. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration to its settlement in America requires that one come to know how these immigrants saw their communities as colonies of the mother country. Edited with extraordinary skill, \u003cem\u003eItaloamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration\u003c\/em\u003e, 1880-1943 brings to an English-speaking audience \u003cstrong\u003ea definitive collection of classic writings on, about, and from the formative years of the Italian-American experience\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published in Italian, this landmark collection of translated writings establishes a rich, diverse, and mature sense of Italian-American life by allowing readers to see American society through the eyes of Italian-speaking immigrants. Filled with the voices from the first generation of Italian-American life, the book presents \u003cstrong\u003ea unique treasury of long-inaccessible writing that embodies a literary canon for Italian-American culture\u003c\/strong\u003e--poetry, drama, journalism, political advocacy, history, memoir, biography, and story--the greater part of which has never before been translated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eItaloamericana\u003c\/em\u003e introduces a new generation of readers to the \"Black Hand\" and the organized crime of the 1920s, the incredible \"pulp\" novels by Bernardino Ciambelli, Paolo Pallavicini, Italo Stanco, Corrado Altavilla, the exhilarating \"macchiette\" by Eduardo Migliaccio (Farfariello) and Tony Ferrazzano, the comedies by Giovanni De Rosalia, Riccardo Cordiferro's dramas and poems, the poetry of Fanny Vanzi-Mussini and Eduardo Migliaccio. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdited by a leading journalist and scholar, \u003cem\u003eItaloamericana\u003c\/em\u003e introduces an important but little-known, largely inaccessible Italian-language literary heritage that defined the Italian-American experience. Organized into five sections--\"Annals of the Great Exodus,\" \"Colonial Chronicles,\" \"On Stage (and Off-Stage),\" \"Anarchists, Socialist, Fascists, Anti-Fascists,\" and \"Apocalyptic Integrated \/ Integrated Apocalyptic Intellectuals\"--the volume distinguishes a literary, cultural, and intellectual history that engages the reader in all sorts of archaeological and genealogical work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francesco Durante\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823260623\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823260621\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 7.00w x 2.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/26\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2014 pg. 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2015 pg. 1138","brand":"Francesco Durante","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980627706111,"sku":"9780823260621","price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_61e33eac-b58d-46f1-9a63-4c02db274fcc.jpg?v=1683250997","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/italoamericana-francesco-durante-9780823260621","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}