Critical Studies in Italian America – serie
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Intimacy and Italian Migration
Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World
Av Loretta Baldassar, Donna R. Gabaccia
Inbunden, 2010
1123 kr
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This provocative collection of essays adds a new dimension to our understanding of nation-building through its examination of the role of intimate cultural processes. First, by exploring the private lives of migrants from Italy through biography, oral history, and ethnography, these essays suggest …
Intimacy and Italian Migration
Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World
Av Loretta Baldassar, Donna R. Gabaccia
Häftad, 2010
469 kr
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This provocative collection of essays adds a new dimension to our understanding of nation-building through its examination of the role of intimate cultural processes. First, by exploring the private lives of migrants from Italy through biography, oral history, and ethnography, these essays suggest …
Italian Folk
Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives
Inbunden, 2010
1194 kr
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Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at best. For many people, these scenarios trigger ingrained assumptions about individuals' beliefs, …
Italian Folk
Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives
Häftad, 2010
530 kr
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Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at best. For many people, these scenarios trigger ingrained assumptions about individuals' beliefs, …
Making Italian America
Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities
Häftad, 2014
487 kr
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How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land—and how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Italian America brings together new scholarship on the cultural history of consumption, immigration, and ethnic marketing to explore these …
Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts
Art, Migrations, Development
Av Luisa Del Giudice, Luisa Del Giudice
Häftad, 2014
618 kr
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The extraordinary Watts Towers were created over the course of three decades by a determined, single-minded artist, Sabato Rodia, a highly remarkable Italian immigrant laborer who wanted to do "something big." Now a National Historic Landmark and internationally renowned destination, the Watts …
Personal Effects
Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo
Av Nancy Caronia, Edvige Giunta
Inbunden, 2014
1015 kr
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A lucid view of one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Louise DeSalvo.Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of …
Pre-Occupied Spaces
Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies
Av Teresa Fiore
Häftad, 2017
487 kr
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Runner Up Winner of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize - Established Scholars, Cultural Studies CategoryWinner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize (20th & 21st Centuries)Honorable Mention for the Howard R. Marraro PrizeBy linking Italy's long history of emigration to all continents in …
Napoli/New York/Hollywood
Film Between Italy and the United States
Inbunden, 2018
1872 kr
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Napoli/New York/Hollywood is an absorbing investigation of the significant impact that Italian immigrant actors, musicians, and directors—and the southern Italian stage traditions they embodied—have had on the history of Hollywood cinema and American media, from 1895 to the present day. In a unique …
Napoli/New York/Hollywood
Film Between Italy and the United States
Häftad, 2018
600 kr
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Napoli/New York/Hollywood is an absorbing investigation of the significant impact that Italian immigrant actors, musicians, and directors—and the southern Italian stage traditions they embodied—have had on the history of Hollywood cinema and American media, from 1895 to the present day. In a unique …
Whom We Shall Welcome
Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945-1965
Häftad, 2019
487 kr
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Winner, Immigration and Ethnic History Society First Book AwardWhom We Shall Welcome examines World War II immigration of Italians to the United States, an under-studied period in Italian immigration history. Danielle Battisti looks at efforts by Italian American organizations to foster Italian …
Whom We Shall Welcome
Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945-1965
Inbunden, 2019
1753 kr
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Winner, Immigration and Ethnic History Society First Book AwardWhom We Shall Welcome examines World War II immigration of Italians to the United States, an under-studied period in Italian immigration history. Danielle Battisti looks at efforts by Italian American organizations to foster Italian …
Personal Effects
Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo
Av Nancy Caronia, Edvige Giunta
Häftad, 2019
300 kr
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A lucid view of one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Louise DeSalvo.Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of …
John Fante's Ask the Dust
A Joining of Voices and Views
Av Stephen Cooper, Clorinda Donato
Häftad, 2020
560 kr
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This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante's 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work's present and future impact.The contributors to this work—writers, critics, fans, scholars, screenwriters, directors, and …
John Fante's Ask the Dust
A Joining of Voices and Views
Av Stephen Cooper, Clorinda Donato
Inbunden, 2020
1891 kr
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This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante's 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work's present and future impact.The contributors to this work—writers, critics, fans, scholars, screenwriters, directors, and …
Redirecting Ethnic Singularity
Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation
Av Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos D. Kalogeras m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
435 kr
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Winner: Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume in Modern Greek Studies Promotes the understanding of Italian Americans and Greek Americans through the study of their interactions and juxtapositions.Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation …
Redirecting Ethnic Singularity
Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation
Av Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos D. Kalogeras m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1509 kr
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Winner: Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume in Modern Greek Studies Promotes the understanding of Italian Americans and Greek Americans through the study of their interactions and juxtapositions.Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation …
