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Beyond The Godfather : Italian American Writers On the Real Italian American Experience
author
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Ciongoli, A. Kenneth.
publisher
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University Press of New England
isbn10 | asin
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0874518458
print isbn13
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9780874518450
ebook isbn13
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9780585267067
language
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English
subject
American literature--Italian American authors--History and criticism, Italian Americans--Social life and customs, Italian Americans--Politics and government, American literature--Italian influences, Italian Americans--Intellectual life, Italian Americans
publication date
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1997
lcc
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PS153.I8B49 1997eb
ddc
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810.9/851
subject
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American literature--Italian American authors--History and criticism, Italian Americans--Social life and customs, Italian Americans--Politics and government, American literature--Italian influences, Italian Americans--Intellectual life, Italian Americans
Page iii
Beyond the Godfather
Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience
A. Kenneth Ciongoli and Jay Parini, editors
University Press of New England Hanover and London
Page iv
University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755
This collection 1997 by University Press of New England
"Respect" 1997 by Alane Salierno Mason
"Scents: A Selection from a Memoir of Italian American Life" 1997 by Maria Laurino
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
5 4 3 2 1
CIP data appear at the end of the book
Acknowledgments for previously published pieces:
"The Edge of Night" by Frank Lentricchia: From The Edge of Night by Frank Lentricchia. Copyright 1994 by Frank Lentricchia. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.
"Origins of a Nonfiction Writer" by Gay Talese originally appeared in Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Literature of Reality, ed. Gay Talese and Barbara Lounsberry, published by Watson-Guptill, 1995.
"What Grandma Knew" by John Agresto originally appeared in Boston College Magazine, summer 1991.
"On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst" by Marianna De Marco Torgovnick originally appeared in Crossing Ocean Parkway, published by the University of Chicago Press, 1994.
The lines from "Firsts" by John Ciardi quoted by Dana Gioia on p. 169 are reproduced from The Collected Poems of John Ciardi, ed. Edward Cifelli, published by the University of Arkansas Press, 1997.
"Breaking and Entering: An Italian American's Literary Odyssey" by Fred L. Gardaph is an expanded version of the Introduction to Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative, published by Duke University Press, 1996; it first appeared in the premiere issue of Forkroads: A Journal of Ethnic-American Literature, fall 1995.
"A Song from the Ghetto: Tina De Rosa's Paper Fish " by Edvige Giunta from the afterword to Paper Fish by Tina De Rosa. Afterword Copyright 1996 by Edvige Giunta. Reprinted by permission of The Feminist Press at The City University of New York.
"Finding My Way," from Vertigo by Louise DeSalvo. Copyright 1996 by Louise DeSalvo. Used by permission of Dutton Signet, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.
The royalties from the sales of this book are being donated to the National Italian American Foundation to fund an annual literary prize.
Page v
To Ambassador Boris Biancheri
Page vii
CONTENTS
Foreword
Ferdinando Salleo, Italian Ambassador to the United States
xi
Preface
A. Kenneth Ciongoli and Jay Parini
xiii
Part One: Memories and Memoirs
Finding My Way
Louise DeSalvo
3
My Aunts Taught Me to Dance
Regina Barreca
19
The Edge of Night
Frank Lentricchia
28
Mysteries of the Hyphen: Poetry, Pasta, and Identity Politics
Sandra M. Gilbert
49
Respect
Alane Salierno Mason
62
Origins of a Nonfiction Writer
Gay Talese
74
Scents: A Selection from a Memoir of Italian American Life
Maria Laurino
97
Page viii
Amalfi Days
Jay Parini
107
Of Cheese and Choices
Claire Gaudiani
114
Shadows in the Garden: Poets of Loss, Italian/American Style
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