Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
Ten years after they began compiling the first edition, the editors of From the Margin have reshaped it into a second edition which reflects seven years of classroom and general use. This edition is a more contemporary representation of what the Italian/American cultural landscape is today. In a few cases, the editors have substituted new voices, in other cases they have simply added more established voices that, for an array of reasons, were not available for the first edition.
The reader of this revised edition now has, interwoven into the established group of the first edition, the lyrical voices of Mary Jo Bona, Peter Carravetta, and Robert Viscusi; the prose writing of Mary Bucci Bush, Carol Maso, Ben Morreale, and Anthony Valerio; and the critical voice of William Boelhower. In addition, the bibliography of critical voices and the filmography have been updated.
Synopsis
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 writer