The Forum was held at Stony Brook University, New York, in October 2008. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Ottorino Cappelli. Introduction / Jerome Krase -- the role of ethnicity / Robert Viscusi -- Commedia della morte : theories of life and death in Italian American culture / Fred Gardaphè -- Reflections on Italian Americans and "otherness" / Anthony Julian Tamburri -- Renewing the conceptual dimensions of Italian-American writing and scholarship / William Boelhower -- Via the margin of the poetic / Djelal Kadir -- Questioning the traditionalism of Italian American literature / Martino Marazzi -- Interpreting the Italian look : visual semiotics of ethnic authenticity / Jerome Krase -- Creolizing the lack : interpreting race and racism in Italian America / Francesca Canadé Sautman -- Whiteness and ethnicity in Italian-American historiography / Stefano Luconi -- Theorizing Italian American history : the search for an historiographical paradigm / Gerald Meyer -- The dog catches his tail : a critical reflection on the value of an Italian American identity in personal development / Donna Chirico -- Re-interpreting Italian-American politics : the role of ethnicity / Ottorino Cappelli.
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