From the Margin

by Tamburri, Anthony Julian; Giordano, Paolo A.; Gardaphe, Fred L.

• ISBN13: 9781557531520
• ISBN10: 1557531528
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr

Summary

This anthology, hailed as a significant contribution to American ethnic studies, features the short stories, poems, and plays of more than thirty Italian American artists. Drawing on their individual and collective backgrounds and experience, these writers convey another vision of American fife. A section of critical essays by established scholars in the field, with topics ranging from specific works and authors to broad literary movements and film studies, analyzes the Italian American phenomenon and the role of ethnicity in literature. The extensive bibliography treats creative works, critical essays, and films dealing with the Italian American experience and promises to be an invaluable research tool.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Preface to the Second Edition	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	1	(14)
Creative Works
Prose
Jerre Mangione
David on Trial	15	(5)
Daniela Gioseffi
Rosa in Television Land	20	(9)
Giose Rimanelli
Memory of Two Tuesdays	29	(8)
Helen Barolini
Greener Grass	37	(7)
Ben Morreale
Monday Tuesday... Never Come Sunday	44	(6)
Tony Ardizzone
Nonna	50	(9)
Diana Cavallo
Juniper Street Sketches 1 and 2	59	(8)
Kenny Marotta
Her Sister	67	(12)
Lisa Ruffolo
My Grandfather's Suit	79	(7)
Salvatore La Puma
Cakes	86	(3)
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Angelina	89	(5)
Joseph Papaleo
Twenty-Nine Steps towards Re-adhesion	94	(6)
Mary Bucci Bush
Drowning	100	(8)
Fred L. Gardaphe
Mora Amore	108	(8)
Anthony Valerio
The Last Godfather	116	(3)
The Dante Society of Westchester	119	(7)
Sandra M. Gilbert
Piacere Conoscerla: On Being an Italian-American	126	(5)
Carole Maso
Ghost Dance	131	(4)
Poetry
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Carrara, Looking Seaward	135	(1)
The Old Italians Dying	135	(4)
Diane di Prima
Backyard	139	(1)
April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa	140	(1)
To My Father---2	141	(1)
The Spirit of Romance	141	(1)
Rant	142	(2)
Prayer to the Mothers	144	(1)
Poem in Praise of My Husband (Taos)	145	(1)
Felix Stefanile
The Dance at Saint Gabriel's	146	(1)
The Wedding Photograph, 1915	146	(1)
Tony	147	(2)
The Americanization of the Immigrant	149	(1)
Antonio Stefanile	149	(1)
How I Changed My Name, Felice	150	(1)
Daniela Gioseffi
The Exotic Enemy	151	(1)
Cento at Dawn	152	(1)
Ants and Worms	152	(1)
Returning from Paradise We Stop at a Carnival	153	(1)
Aperture	154	(1)
The Lily Shivers	155	(1)
As When Some Silenced Singer Hears Her Aria	156	(1)
Sandra M. Gilbert
In the Golden Sala	157	(1)
The Summer Kitchen	158	(2)
Jay Parini
Piazza	160	(1)
Grandmother in Heaven	161	(1)
At the Ruined Monastery in Amalfi	162	(1)
Syrinx	163	(1)
Crops	163	(1)
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Coda for Salvation	164	(2)
After Seeing Pierre Bonnard's The Breakfast Room	166	(1)
White Lies	166	(1)
Poem to Monica Ochtrap	167	(1)
Dark on Dark	168	(1)
Reunion at Berkeley	168	(2)
Betrayals	170	(1)
The Eyes of Women	171	(1)
Arturo	172	(2)
Jonathan Galassi
Conscience	174	(1)
Montale's Grave	175	(1)
San Francesco	175	(1)
Morning Run	176	(3)
Tina DeRosa
Psalm of the Eucharist	179	(9)
Kenneth Gangemi
Easter Week in Rome	188	(1)
Winter Afternoon at the Museum	188	(1)
Bruno the Magnificent	189	(1)
In Praise of Radio	190	(3)
Diane Raptosh
Letters from Concetta's Palmist	193	(3)
Gloss on Uncle Louie's Fingernails	196	(1)
Casting Hand Shadows	197	(3)
Emanuela in the New World Garden	200	(2)
Pullover	202	(1)
Jerome Mazzaro
Lullaby	203	(1)
Early Afternoon, Chautauqua	203	(1)
The Caves of Love	204	(1)
After Spring Storms	205	(1)
Flowers	206	(1)
Library Tapestry	206	(1)
Blue Haze	207	(1)
Buffalo/Stasis	208	(1)
Mary Jo Bona
The Act of Remembering	209	(2)
Snoqualmie Falls, July	211	(1)
To Sacco and Vanzetti, In America	212	(1)
When Dead Men Speak	213	(1)
My Father's Sorrow	214	(1)
You Must Know This	215	(1)
Adeodato Piazza Nicolai
Triptych, Outside of Siena	216	(2)
Imaginary Slides besides Inside, upon Revere's Mare	218	(1)
The Journeys Back Home	219	(2)
Peter Carravetta
Resurgence DNA and Other Crossover Motifs	221	(4)
Phyllis Capello
The Language of Bed	225	(1)
The Lioness Lullaby	226	(1)
Heat	226	(1)
The Unborn Child as Poem	227	(1)
Rotting Fruit	227	(1)
Concentration Camp	228	(1)
Our Lady's Field---Vignettes	228	(1)
Who Threw the Stone?	229	(1)
Drive to the Country	230	(1)
In Memory of Jenny and Evelyn Who Were Playing When the Stoop Collapsed	231	(1)
Arthur L. Clements
Dream of Flying	232	(1)
A Modern Odyssey	232	(1)
Appomattox	233	(3)
Why I Don't Speak Italian	236	(1)
Elegy	237	(2)
Dana Gioia
Photograph of My Mother as a Young Girl	239	(1)
The Garden on the Campagna	239	(1)
The Journey, the Arrival, and the Dream	240	(2)
An Emigre in Autumn	242	(1)
Robert Viscusi
Poems	243	(5)
Joseph Tusiani
The Soliloquy of Francis Vigo	248	(2)
Ad Patrem	250	(1)
Iter ad Garganum	251	(1)
Ethnic Quartet	252	(5)
Critical Essays
Robert Viscusi
A Literature Considering Itself: The Allegory of Italian America	257	(17)
Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum
red, a little white, a lot of green, on a field of pink: a controversial design for an Italian component of a multicultural canon for the United States	274	(12)
Fred L. Gardaphe
From Oral Tradition to Written Word: Toward an Ethnographically Based Literary Criticism	286	(13)
Frank Lentricchia
Luigi Ventura and the Origins of Italian-American Fiction	299	(6)
Franco Mulas
The Ethnic Language of Pietro Di Donato's Christ in Concrete	305	(9)
Paolo A. Giordano
From Southern Italian Emigrant to Reluctant American: Joseph Tusiani's Gente Mia and Other Poems	314	(13)
Samuel J. Patti
Recent Italian American Literature: The Case of John Fante	327	(9)
John Paul Russo
The Choice of Gilbert Sorrentino	336	(19)
Anthony Julian Tamburri
Umbertina: The Italian/American Woman's Experience	355	(17)
William Boelhower
``Pago, Pago!'': The Gift Principle in Contemporary Italian/American Narratives	372	(22)
Robert Casillo
Moments in Italian-American Cinema: From Little Caesar to Coppola and Scorsese	394	(23)
Ben Lawton
America through Italian/American Eyes: Dream or Nightmare?	417	(34)
Select Critical Bibliography	451	(24)
Paolo A. Giordano
Fred L. Gardaphe
Anthony Julian Tamburri
Select Filmography	475	(8)
Ben Lawton
Contributors	483	(10)
Index	493