To 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, Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great
Migration, 1880-1943 brings to an English-speaking audience a
definitive collection of classic writings on, about, and from the
formative years of the Italian-American experience. Originally
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 a unique treasury of long-inaccessible writing that
embodies a literary canon for Italian-American culture—poetry,
drama, journalism, political advocacy, history, memoir, biography,
and story—the greater part of which has never before been
translated. Italoamericana 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. Edited by a leading journalist and scholar,
Italoamericana 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. The original volume in Italian: Italoamericana Vol II: Storia
e Letteratura degli Italiani negli Stati Uniti 1880-1943
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