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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820420403321

Titolo

Italian folk : vernacular culture in Italian-American lives / / edited by Joseph Sciorra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-8232-3267-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 257 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Critical studies in Italian America

Altri autori (Persone)

SciorraJoseph

Disciplina

398.208951073

Soggetti

Italian Americans

Italian Americans - Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""Listening with an Accent""; ""Sunday Dinner? You Had to Be There!""; ""Cuscuszu in Detroit, July 18, 1993""; ""The Italian Immigrant Basement Kitchen in North America""; ""Creative Responses to the Italian Immigrant Experience in California""; ""Landscapes of Order, Landscapes of Memory""; ""Locating Memory""; ""Valtaro Musette""; ""Italians in Public Memory""; ""Changing St. Gerard's Clothes""; ""Cursed Flesh""; ""Imagining the Strega""

Sommario/riassunto

Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at best.