Table of Contents
Finding my way / Louise DeSalvo -- My aunts taught me to dance / Regina Barreca -- The edge of night / Frank Lentricchia -- Mysteries of the hyphen : poetry, pasta, and identity politics / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Respect / Alane Salierno Mason -- Origins of a nonfiction writer / Gay Talese -- Scents : a selection from a memoir of Italian American life / Maria Laurino -- Amalfi days / Jay Parini -- Of cheese and choices / Claire Gaudiani -- Shadows in the garden : poets of loss, Italian/American style / Mary Cappello -- What Grandma knew / John Agresto -- On being white, female, and born in Bensonhurst / Marianna De Marco Torgovnick -- What is Italian American poetry? / Dana Gioia -- Breaking and entering : an Italian American's literary odyssey / Fred L. Gardaphe -- Rethinking the Italian/American writer : Tony Ardizzone's expressive stories of The evening news / Anthony J. Tamburri -- 'A song from the ghetto' / Edvige Giunta -- Italian Americans and American politics / Michael Barone -- Cryptoethnicity / Linda Hutcheon -- The way of the WASP / A. Kenneth Ciongoli -- Italian Americans address America's problems : families and children in the twenty-first century / Matilda Cuomo -- The crisis of Italian American identity / Richard Gambino -- The 80th street Mafia / Joseph V. Scelsa -- Are Italian Americans just white folks? / Rudolph J. Vecoli.