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  • From Wiseguys to Wise Men

    The Gangster and Italian American Masculinities

    by Fred Gardaphe ...
    The gangster, in the hands of the Italian American artist, becomes a telling figure in the tale of American race, gender, and ethnicity - a figure that reflects the autobiography of an immigrant group just as it reflects the fantasy of a native population.From Wiseguys to Wise Men studies the figure of the gangster and explores its social function in the construction and projection of masculinity ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Behind Closed Doors

    Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily

    by Maria Messina, Fred Gardaphé ...
    Translated by Elise Magistro ...
    Ten stories of impoverished Sicilian women in the early 20th century—"honed, polished, devastatingly direct . . . verismo at its unsentimental best" ( Kirkus Reviews).The Sicilian writer Maria Messina's captivating and brutal stories of the women of her home island are presented in a "lyrical and immediate" English translation by Elise Magistro ( Publishers Weekly).Messina, who died in 1944, was ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crossing Borders

    Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh

    by Silvia Schultermandl, Peter Schmidt, Elleke Boehmer, Martha J. Cutter, Thadious M. Davis, Robin E. Field, Rahul K. Gairola, Fred Gardaphe, Ayesha Hardison, Jasbir Jain, Zubeda Jalalzai, Charles Johnson, Auritro Majumder, Arnold Rampersad, Catherine Rottenberg, Amritjit Singh, Werner Sollors, Robert B. Stepto, Nibir K. Ghosh, Lynda Ng, Nalini Iyer, Cheryl A. Wall ...
    Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the idea of “border crossings” and represent important contributions to the discourses on modernity, ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Redirecting Ethnic Singularity

    Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation

    by Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos D. Kalogeras, Theodora Patrona, Eleftheria Arapoglou, Angelyn Balodimas-Bartolomei, Jim Cocola, Francesca de Lucia, Donna R. Gabaccia0, Fred Gardaphe1, Kostis Kourelis2, Panayotis League3, Stefano Luconi4, Michail C. Markodimitrakis5, Andonis Piperoglou6, Fevronia K. Soumakis7, Sostene Massimo Zangari8 ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Italian America
    Winner: Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume in Modern Greek StudiesPromotes the understanding of Italian Americans and Greek Americans through the study of their interactions and juxtapositions.Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation contributes to U.S. ethnic and immigration studies by bringing into conversation scholars working in ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Delirious Naples

    A Cultural History of the City of the Sun

    by Erri de Luca, Joseph Rescigno, Andrea Baldi, Simona Frasca, Joseph Connors, Fred Gardaphe, Valerio Caprara, Salvatore Napolitano, Simone Marchesi, Gioia Timpanelli, Gregory Pell, Theresa Aiello, Angelo Cannavacciuolo, Nick Napoli, Jonathan Galassi, Charles Sant'Elia, Patrizia La Trecchia, B. Amore, Gabriella Romani, John Domini, Robert Zweig, Francesco Durante, Jason Pine, Terrence Ward, Ilaria Marchesi, Rose DeAngelis ...
    This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders, and also to ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Italian Signs, American Streets

    The Evolution of Italian American Narrative

    by Fred L. Gardaphé ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In the first major critical reading of Italian American narrative literature in two decades, Fred L. Gardaphé presents an interpretive overview of Italian American literary history. Examining works from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, he develops a new perspective—variously historical, philosophical, and cultural—by which American writers of Italian descent can be read, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • East Liberty

    A Novel

    by Joseph Bathanti ...
    A fatherless boy is conflicted by his Catholic upbringing and his dreams in this coming-of-age novelEast Liberty is a poetic, passionate coming-of-age novel spanning 1955 to 1963, set in an Italian-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh. Roberto (Bobby) Renzo, the novel's fatherless narrator and main character, lives with Francene Renzo, his beautiful, mysterious, and unconventional mother who gave ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus