When I am Italian /
My American ancestral Italian village was in Waterbury, Connecticut." In this sentence, Joanna Clapps Herman raises the central question of this book. To what extent can a person born outside of Italy be considered Italian? The granddaughter of Italian immigrants who arrived in the United State...
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Albany :
Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Many missing stones
- What does it mean to be italian?: Quando sono Italiana: when I am Italian
- Waterbury, Connecticut, My Ancestral Village: Up the farm ; What crawls around inside ; Housing memory ; Blue ; What we remember ; Go fish
- Food, Food, Food and Work: Creature life ; My mother's letter to her sister ; Hard work and good food ; Sunday on the farm ; My only Irish aunt ; Minestra means soup
- Move to America: Chiesta ca or this one here ; After Eden ; My first New York story, 1965 ; 200 square feet in the village, or my soluble fortunes ; My friend Elizabeth ; On not writing my thesis
- Italia, Sempre Italia: Part one: Southern italy ; The stones of dialect ; Siamo arrivati ; " That winter evening" ; My Neapolitan wedding ; Part two: The opposite of southern italy ; After the manner of women
- The Grief Estate: Visiting our dead ; My father's bones ; Voglio bene ; Somewhere my Bill.