AIHA Conference Volume
36. 2003. Italian Americans and the Arts & Culture. Mary Jo Bona, Dawn Esposito, Anthony Julian Tamburri, eds. 2007. 390 pp. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. November 6-8, 2003.
Table of Contents
Preface
p. ix
Emelise Aleandri, "Little Italy, New York City"
p. 1
Annette Wheeler Cafarelli, "Tall Dark and Handsone: Ethnicity in Mass Market Romance"
p. 22
Louisa Calio, "Premonitions of Iraq: War, Women and Healing A Look at Somalia in Lina Unali's
Somali Queen, Somali King and Eritra in Louisa Calio's Journey to the Heart Waters"
p. 44
Frank J. Cavaioli, "The First Conference of the American Italian Historical Association"
p. 60
Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, "African Origins and Semitic Heritage of Italina and Other
European/Americans. Legacy of Hope for a Just and Peaceful World"
p. 72
Michael R. Frontani, "'From the Bottom to the Top' Frank Sinatra, The American Myth
of Success, and Italian American Identity"
p. 94
Salvatore J. LaGumina, "Italian American Organizations in the Tri-State Area:
Actuality and Transmission of Culture"
p. 111
Stefano Luconi, "Writing Italian-American History in the Era of Affirmative Action"
p. 127
Maria Paola Malva, "Bringing Back Memories: An Epistolary Analysis"
p. 146
Rob Marchesani, "Pride and Shame in the North/South Divide"
p. 166
Elisabetta Marino, "'Telling Stories of Lands and Souls' A Quest for Communication
and Peace in Italian American and Italian Poets"
p. 178
Chiara Mazzucchelli, "Sicilians Take Over Rochester: Jerre Mangione's
Mount Allegro & Andrew James Ciulla's Papa Was a Riot"
p. 189
Maria-Christine Michaud, "A Bronx Tale: A Fairy Tale?"
p. 204
Ernesto R. Milani, "The Publication of the Translation of Rosa, The Life of an Italian Immigrant"
p. 222
Franco Mulas, "Inter-Generational Conflict in Mario Puzo's The Fortunate Pilgrim"
p. 201
Dominique Padurano, "From Angelo to Atlas: How a 97-Pound Immigrant Weakling Became All-American Working-Class Hero"
p. 247
Joyce Carol Polistena, "A Modern Technological Fetish? The Work of Joseph Stella and Frank Stella"
p. 258
JoAnne Ruvoli, "From Spritzhead Girlfriends to Plastic Grapes: Italian American Sequential Artists"
p. 279
John J. LaCorte and Frank M. Sorrentino, "Italian Americans Alternating Images as 'Artist and Mafioso'"
p. 294
Stefania Taviano, "Re-creating Cultural Identity on Stage"
p. 316
Lina Unali, "Experiences and Visions of Africa and Asia in Italian Poets and Writers of the Twentieth Century:
Ungaretti, Pea, Marinetti, Pasolini, Malaparte, Calvino"
p. 328
Maria Elisa Ciavarelli, "Poetry Translations"
p. 346
Margaret R. Saraco, "Poems"
p. 363
Index
p. 371
Contributors
p. 385