The Italian American Culture of Scenes

2021 ◽  
pp. 553-562
Author(s):  
Pellegrino D’Acierno
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Italian American

A Sitdown with the Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on T.V.'s Most Talked-about Series

MELUS ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 226
Author(s):  
Ben Lawton ◽  
Regina Barreca
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Italian American ◽  
The Sopranos

scholarly journals Failed Family Sagas

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54
Author(s):  
Eva Pelayo-Sañudo
Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Italian American ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Male Lineage

The aim of this article is to examine how failed family sagas have defined early Italian/American culture and female literary tradition through Julia Savarese’s The Weak and the Strong (1952) and Marion Benasutti’s No Steady Job for Papa (1966). The idea of failed (female) lineages is articulated in a thematic sense that is overtly expressed in the depiction of both families in the texts. These convey a doomed plot which matches the coarse realities of immigration and the depression, as well as reflects the boundaries represented by the intersecting limitations of embodying racial and gender difference. Particularly, the article focuses on how male lineage is paramount in the novels and define Italian/American culture. In this sense, the analysis also contends that, as the authors themselves also encountered similar limitations, the lost genealogy of these early precursors has equally endangered the Italian/American female literary tradition.

scholarly journals Elegies and Genealogies of Place: Spatial Belonging in the Italian/American Culture and Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 125-146
Author(s):  
Eva Pelayo Sañudo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Politics Of Place ◽  
Italian American ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Little Italy

This article examines the poetics and politics of place in Italian/American culture and in Tina De Rosa’s novel Paper Fish (1980), particularly its portrayal of ‘elegies and genealogies of place’, an appropriate framework through which to read the importance of spatial belonging. It investigates the way in which cultural identity is mostly built on both imagined communities and imagined places, as is common in migrant and diasporic cultures, through the evocation or creation of ancestors and the homeland. In addition, the Italian/American community leaves the characteristic Little Italy enclaves or undergoes displacement due to urban renewal projects and the move to the suburbs in the mid-twentieth century, which is sometimes compared to a second migration or diaspora. As a consequence, former urban enclaves come to assume a centrality as lostsanctuaries, which is captured in the trope of the Old Neighbourhood. The article contributes to existing contemporary research on the binomial placeidentity by tracing how key events of US urban history impacted on Italian/American culture. Furthermore, the goal is to offer new critical readings of Paper Fish through the focus on place-making.

Dream Streets: The Big Book of Italian American Culture

MELUS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Carol Bonomo Ahearn ◽  
Lawrence DiStasi
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Italian American

After identity: migration, critique, Italian American culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-99
Author(s):  
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Italian American
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