Italoamericana

Francesco Durante born in Anacapri, teaches the Culture and Literature of Italian Americans at the Università Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples. As one of Italy's foremost journalists and literary critics, he has written for various Italian newspapers and journals. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including the groundbreaking Italoamericana. Storia e letteratura degli italiani negli Stati Uniti, 1776–1943, in two volumes (the second was published with the same title by Fordham University Press in 2014); Figli di due mondi. Fante, DiDonato & C: narratori italoamericani degli anni Trenta e Quaranta; Scuorno (vergogna); I napoletani; and, together with the late Rudolph J. Vecoli, Oh Capitano! La vita favolosa di Celso Cesare Moreno in quattro continenti. He has edited two volumes of Mondadori's prestigious Meridiani series on John Fante and Domenico Rea. In addition to various editions of mannerist and baroque poets and American writers, he has translated seven volumes of John Fante, two by Bret Easton Ellis, and other writers such as William Somerset Maugham, George Arnold, and William Dean Howells. Durante is the artistic director of the annual Salerno Literary Festival. His latest book is La letteratura italoamericana (2017).Anthony Julian Tamburri is Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College, CUNY. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He is codirector of Bordighera Press and past president of the American Italian Historical Association and of the American Association of Teachers of Italian. His books include Narrare altrove: diverse segnalature letterarie (2007); Una semiotica dell'etnicità: nuove segnalature per la letteratura italiano / americana (2010); Re- viewing Italian Americana: Generalities and Specificities on Cinema (2011); and Re- reading Italian Americana: Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism (2014). He is a cofounder of the Italian American Digital Project. Since 2007, he has been the executive producer of the TV program Italics.

"A sophisticated, critical look at the writings of Italian immigrants to America across all genres...This volume is a major work and forms an invaluable testament to a forgotten era of Italian literary history in the new world...A massive work of extraordinary power, that while scholarly and comprehensive, will have wide appeal." -Publishers Weekly Starred Review "This volume is a comprehensive compilation of writings by Italian American authors. First published in Italy, edited by journalist and literary scholar Durante, the anthology covers the mass migration of Italians to the United States up to World War II... VERDICT Highly recommended for anyone interested in immigrant literature and an essential purchase for any collection of Italian American literature and culture." -Morris Hounion, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, Library Journal "It is not an exaggeration to characterize this work as monumental, not only for the large number of original sources it includes in its nearly one thousand pages but also for its variety and organization." -Italian American Review " ... [A] kaleidoscopic, thousand-page anthology of memoirs, poetry, political commentary and newspaper excerpts ..." -Sam Roberts, The New York Times "Italoamericana is a supreme work of scholarship-an archive unto itself in the form of a meticulously researched and scrupulously glossed and documented historical anthology of the literary creation of the Italian migration." -- -Pellegrino D'Acierno Hofstra University "In its girth, the volume is a metaphorical feast, suggesting both the collective heft of the rediscovered output and the unique works still waiting to be discovered... highly recommended." -Choice "Italoamericana is a supreme work of scholarship-an archive unto itself in the form of a meticulously researched and scrupulously glossed and documented historical anthology of the literary creation of the Italian migration. We owe a great debt of gratitude to Fordham University Press for having the vision and gumption to have undertaken the monumental task of preparing the American edition and for making available to the English readership Francesco Durante's inclusive retrieval of the lost and marginalized literature of the Great Immigration. That retrieval constituted a powerful act of cultural and historical memory by which the texts of the diaspora (of the "colony" as comprising all of the Little Italies) were "repatriated" and re-inscribed within the literary history of the Italian nation. The American edition enacts a homecoming for these texts of and in exile that returns them to their rightful place in the Italian American narrative." -Pelligrino D'Acierno, Hofstra University "This massive anthology rings out with the voices of legions of Italians and Italian Americans over six decades. From it flows their poetry, drama, stories, memories, novels, speeches, oral histories and more." -Voce Italiana "Italoamericana spotlights, through a broad variety of literary work, the distinct culture and history of Italian Americans, while showing the universality of the immigrant story. It should find a place in every Italian American household, as a touchstone to a reality few of us know anything about." -Feile-Festa

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Chronicle of the Great Exodus Introduction Carlo Barsotti To the Readers Ferdinando Fontana Shine? ... Shine? Luigi Roversi For Humanity Rocco Corresca Biography of a Bootblack Gaetano Conte Little Italy Gino Carlo Speranza How It Feels to Represent a Problem Alberto Pecorini The Children of Emigrants Alberto Tarchiani Neither Foreigners nor Americans Al Capone Public Service Is My Motto Part II. Colonial Reports Introduction Luigi Donato Ventura Peppino Fanny Vanzi-Mussini The Destruction of San Francisco, April 18, 1906 Adolfo Rossi The Five Points Giuseppe Antonio Cadicamo To Giuseppe Giacosa Edoardo Michelangeli Two Stories Bernardino Ciambelli A Story, Sketches, and a Play Camillo Cianfarra An Emigrant's Diary Thomas Fragale Two Poems Antonio Calitri Two Poems Angelo Rosati Three Poems Calicchiu Pucciu The Poor Woman Paolo Pallavicini The Little Madonna of the Italians Italo Stanco Bohemian and Detective Ernesto Valentini Brunori's Fortune Eugenio Camillo Branchi Hold Up! Dora Colonna The Two Girlfriends Caterina Maria Avella The Flapper Severina Magni Seven Poems Antonio Marinoni The Hula Hula Flag Corrado Altavilla The Verdict Part III. On Stage (and Off) Introduction Francesco Ricciardi The Interrogation of Pulcinella Riccardo Cordiferro Four Poems and a Dramatic Play Eduardo Migliaccio Five Poems Tony Ferrazzano Three Poems Giovanni De Rosalia Nofrio on the Telephone Armando Cennerazzo Child Abductors, or The Black Hand Gino Calza Two Poems Michele Pane The Americanized Calabrian Achille Almerini Dante's Colony Pasquale Seneca The Pichinicco Vincenzo Campora Spaghetti House Alfredo Borgianini Two Poems Rodolfo Valentino Six Poems Silvio Picchianti Domestic Court Ario Flamma Leaves in the Whirlwind Part IV. Anarchists, Socialists, Fascists, and Antifascists Introduction Giuseppe Ciancabilla The First of May Simplicio Righi Two Poems Luigi Galleani Methods of the Socialist Struggle Umberto Postiglione An Editorial and a Dramatic Play Ludovico M. Caminita A Letter and a Story Giuseppe Bertelli Six Poems Alberico Molinari Brief Discourses Arturo Giovannitti Four Poems Efrem Bartoletti Four Poems Vincenzo Vacirca The Fire Onorio RuotoloIn Union Square Park Agostino De Biasi Fascism in America Rosario Ingargiola The Lighthouse Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni To Mussolini, the Immortal Rosario Di Vita Two Poems 000 Umberto Liberatore Two Poems Armando Borghi The Failed Ambush Virgilia D'Andrea Remembering Michele Schirru Raffaele Schiavina What to Do? Carlo Tresca Two Articles Ezio Taddei Once Again Tresca Part V. Integrated Apocalyptics Introduction Lisi Cecilia Cipriani A Story and a Poem Angelo Patri A Schoolmaster of the Great City Silvio VillaViola Constantine PanunzioIn an Immigrant Community Emanuel Carnevali The Day of Summer Pascal D'Angelo Son of Italy Francesco Ventresca Incipit Vita Nova Louis Forgione The Torture of the Soul Giuseppe Cautela Miracle Edward Corsi A Picture of 1907 Notes Bibliography Index