From the Margin

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

• ISBN13: 9781557530073
• ISBN10: 1557530076
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-01-01
• 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	p. xiii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Creative Works
Prose
David on Trial	p. 15
Rosa in Television Land	p. 20
Memory of Two Tuesdays	p. 29
Greener Grass	p. 37
Monday Tuesday ... Never Come Sunday	p. 44
Nonna	p. 50
Juniper Street Sketches 1 and 2	p. 59
Her Sister	p. 67
My Grandfather's Suit	p. 79
Cakes	p. 86
Angelina	p. 89
Twenty-Nine Steps towards Re-adhesion	p. 94
Drowning	p. 100
Mora Amore	p. 108
The Last Godfather	p. 116
The Dante Society of Westchester	p. 119
Piacere Conoserla: On Being an Italian-American	p. 126
Ghost Dance	p. 131
Poetry
Carrara, Looking Seaward	p. 135
The Old Italians Dying	p. 135
Backyard	p. 139
April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa	p. 140
To My Father--2	p. 141
The Spirit of Romance	p. 141
Rant	p. 142
Prayer to the Mothers	p. 144
Poem in Praise of My Husband (Taos)	p. 145
The Dance at Saint Gabriel's	p. 146
The Wedding Photograph, 1915	p. 146
Tony	p. 147
The Americanization of the Immigrant	p. 149
Antonio Stefanile	p. 149
How I Changed My Name, Felice	p. 150
The Exotic Enemy	p. 151
Cento at Dawn	p. 152
Ants and Worms	p. 152
Returning from Paradise We Stop at a Carnival	p. 153
Aperture	p. 154
The Lily Shivers	p. 155
As When Some Silenced Singer Hears Her Aria	p. 156
In the Golden Sala	p. 157
The Summer Kitchen	p. 158
Piazza	p. 160
Grandmother in Heaven	p. 161
At the Ruined Monastery in Amalfi	p. 162
Syrinx	p. 163
Crops	p. 163
Coda for Salvation	p. 164
After Seeing Pierre Bonnard's The Breakfast Room	p. 166
White Lies	p. 166
Poem to Monica Ochtrap	p. 167
Dark on Dark	p. 168
Reunion at Berkeley	p. 168
Betrayals	p. 170
The Eyes of Women	p. 171
Arturo	p. 172
Conscience	p. 174
Montale's Grave	p. 175
San Francesco	p. 175
Morning Run	p. 176
Psalm of the Eucharist	p. 179
Easter Week in Rome	p. 188
Winter Afternoon at the Museum	p. 188
Bruno the Magnificent	p. 189
In Praise of Radio	p. 190
Letters from Concetta's Palmist	p. 193
Gloss on Uncle Louie's Fingernails	p. 196
Casting Hand Shadows	p. 197
Emanuela in the New World Garden	p. 200
Pullover	p. 202
Lullaby	p. 203
Early Afternoon, Chautauqua	p. 203
The Caves of Love	p. 204
After Spring Storms	p. 205
Flowers	p. 206
Library Tapestry	p. 206
Blue Haze	p. 207
Buffalo/Stasis	p. 208
The Act of Remembering	p. 209
Snoqualmie Falls, July	p. 211
To Sacco and Vanzetti, In America	p. 212
When Dead Men Speak	p. 213
My Father's Sorrow	p. 214
You Must Know This	p. 215
Triptych, Outside of Siena	p. 216
Imaginary Slides besides Inside, upon Revere's Mare	p. 218
The Journeys Back Home	p. 219
Resurgence DNA and Other Crossover Motifs	p. 221
The Language of Bed	p. 225
The Lioness Lullaby	p. 226
Heat	p. 226
The Unborn Child as Poem	p. 227
Rotting Fruit	p. 227
Concentration Camp	p. 228
Our Lady's Field--Vignettes	p. 228
Who Threw the Stone?	p. 229
Drive to the Country	p. 230
In Memory of Jenny and Evelyn: Who Were Playing When the Stoop Collapsed	p. 231
Dream of Flying	p. 232
A Modern Odyssey	p. 232
Appomattox	p. 233
Why I Don't Speak Italian	p. 236
Elegy	p. 237
Photograph of My Mother as a Young Girl	p. 239
The Garden on the Campagna	p. 239
The Journey, the Arrival, and the Dream	p. 240
An Emigre in Autumn	p. 242
Poems	p. 243
The Soliloquy of Francis Vigo	p. 248
Ad Patrem	p. 250
Iter ad Garganum	p. 251
Ethnic Quartet	p. 252
Critical Essays
A Literature Considering Itself: The Allegory of Italian America	p. 257
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	p. 274
From Oral Tradition to Written Word: Toward an Ethnographically Based Literary Criticism	p. 286
Luigi Ventura and the Origins of Italian-American Fiction	p. 299
The Ethnic Language of Pietro Di Donato's Christ in Concrete	p. 305
From Southern Italian Emigrant to Reluctant American: Joseph Tusiani's Gente Mia and Other Poems	p. 314
Recent Italian American Literature: The Case of John Fante	p. 327
The Choice of Gilbert Sorrentino	p. 336
Umbertina: The Italian/American Woman's Experience	p. 355
"Pago, Pago!": The Gift Principle in Contemporary Italian/American Narratives	p. 372
Moments in Italian-American Cinema: From Little Caesar to Coppola and Scorsese	p. 394
America through Italian/American Eyes: Dream or Nightmare?	p. 417
Select Critical Bibliography	p. 451
Select Filmography	p. 475
Contributors	p. 483
Index	p. 493
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