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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

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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
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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

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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
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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

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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
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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

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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,
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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

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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
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

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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
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In the Name of the Mother

Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen

by Samuele F. S. Pardini ...

In the Name of the Mother examines the cultural relationship between African American intellectuals and Italian American writers and artists, and how it relates to American blackness in the twentieth century. Samuele Pardini links African American literature to the Mediterranean tradition of the Italian immigrants and examines both against the white intellectual discourse that defines modernism in ... Read more

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In the Name of the Mother examines the cultural relationship between African American intellectuals and Italian American writers and artists, and how it relates to American blackness in the twentieth century. Samuele Pardini links African American literature to the Mediterranean tradition of the Italian immigrants and examines both against the white intellectual discourse that defines modernism in
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The Leopard

A Novel

by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa ...

**NOW A NETFLIX SERIES • In this powerful novel, an aristocratic family grapples with societal upheaval and personal struggles against the backdrop of sweeping historical change."A majestic, melancholy, and beautiful novel."—The New Yorker • "A masterwork . . . A superb novel*."—Newsweek***in 1860s Sicily, Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina, remains skeptical and stoic as he faces civil war ... Read more

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**NOW A NETFLIX SERIES • In this powerful novel, an aristocratic family grapples with societal upheaval and personal struggles against the backdrop of sweeping historical change."A majestic, melancholy, and beautiful novel."—The New Yorker • "A masterwork . . . A superb novel*."—Newsweek***in 1860s Sicily, Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina, remains skeptical and stoic as he faces civil war
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

Stories

by Stephen King ...

Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, MaineThe masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each one.For more than thirty-five years, Stephen King has dazzled readers with ... Read more

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Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, MaineThe masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each one.For more than thirty-five years, Stephen King has dazzled readers with
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Thinking About History

by Sarah Maza ...

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, ... Read more

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What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write,
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J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

A Cultural History

by Josef Benson ...

A fascinating examination of J.D. Salinger and his landmark novel, The Catcher in the RyeSince its publication in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye has been a cultural phenomenon, not only as an assigned text for English courses, but as a touchstone for generations of alienated youth. But who was J.D. Salinger, and how did he come to write a novel whose impact continues to resonate with millions of ... Read more

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A fascinating examination of J.D. Salinger and his landmark novel, The Catcher in the RyeSince its publication in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye has been a cultural phenomenon, not only as an assigned text for English courses, but as a touchstone for generations of alienated youth. But who was J.D. Salinger, and how did he come to write a novel whose impact continues to resonate with millions of
... Read more
Her Body and Other Parties

Stories

by Carmen Maria Machado ...

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction“[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay“In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”—Karen RussellIn Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary ... Read more

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Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction“[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay“In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”—Karen RussellIn Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary
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