Through the Periscope : Changing Culture, Italian America (Suny series in Italian/american Culture)

Marazzi, Martino

State University of New York Press（2022/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 210 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438488615
• DDC分類 850.9973

Full Description

Offers a wider approach to Italian American culture, one that stresses both its material, urban components and the creativity of its formal literary codes.

The constant dialogue between literary forms of the Old and the New World is the core concern of the essays in Through the Periscope, which examine these ever-changing historical, intellectual, and psychological landscapes through the lens of Italian American culture. Moving beyond Little Italy, the book widens the spectrum of "pure" immigrant studies. It analyzes the longue durée of the revolutionary energies of 1848, an arc that leads from Margaret Fuller to Bob Dylan via the Great Migration of European peoples and languages, as well as the merging of various immigrant voices in the "changing culture" of turn-of-the-century New York. It reclaims the importance of Dante for Italian American writers and follows the metamorphosis of a Romance language dense in masterworks and oral nuances through the multiple signs of a new "illiterature." Points of arrival are both the majestic proletarian novels of the 1930s and a contemporary poem like Robert Viscusi's Ellis Island. Martino Marazzi's volume underlines the richness of such an epic cultural transformation and its fundamental importance for a more thorough understanding of Euro-American relations.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Changing Culture

1. A Hard Rome's A-Gonna Fall: Roman Sonnets, Sicilian Sulfur, and American Ballads

2. Changing Culture: European Immigrants and New York City Literature, 1870-1940

3. "Our brother Dante": Dantesque Reappropriations in Italian America

Part II: Transitional Modes of Italian American Letters

4. All the Words That Are (Not) Fit to Print: Notes on the "Illiterature" of the Italian Emigration

5. Questioning the Traditionalism of Italian American Literature

6. Kings of Harlem: Garibaldi Lapolla and the "Grand" Gennaro

7. I Am(s): Strategies of Acceptance and Denial

8. Reading Robert Viscusi

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index