04122nam 2200697Ia 450 991096328210332120200520144314.0978143843633314384363359781441688910144168891910.1515/9781438436333(CKB)2670000000090634(OCoLC)710992915(CaPaEBR)ebrary10574041(SSID)ssj0000466924(PQKBManifestationID)11277270(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000466924(PQKBWorkID)10466540(PQKB)10996800(Au-PeEL)EBL3407180(CaPaEBR)ebr10574041(OCoLC)923402384(DE-B1597)683117(DE-B1597)9781438436333(MiAaPQ)EBC3407180(Perlego)2672026(EXLCZ)99267000000009063420100803d2011 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe anarchist bastard growing up Italian in America /Joanna Clapps HermanAlbany Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Pressc20111 online resource (262 p.) SUNY series in Italian/American cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781438436326 1438436327 9781438436319 1438436319 Includes bibliographical references.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- With and Without Words -- Homer in Waterbury: The Backdrop -- My Homer -- The Unsayable: The Clapps Family -- Peter and His Brothers -- Paulie e ’u Gagaron’ -- My Father Telling Stories -- The Unsayable -- Before and After Tinfoil: The Becce Family -- The Anarchist Bastard -- Rille -- Waiting for Vito -- Tre’ Casse -- Keeping Company -- Flesh and Bone -- Both Are True -- Two -- Before and After Tinfoil -- Stitching Our Voices Together -- Coffee And -- Words and Rags -- My AboriginalWomen -- Uffa: Jojo the Monkey -- Dropping in on Sandy -- Notes of an Unredeemed Catholic -- E ’ Poi? And Then? -- ‘U Bizz’ di Creanz’: A Piece of Politeness -- In Absence -- Without My Tribe -- The Discourse of un’ Propria Papon’ -- Lotions, Potions, and Solutions -- And La La La -- Psychic ArrangementsFinalist for the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Autobiography/Memoir Category"I was born in 1944, but raised in the twelfth century." With that, Joanna Clapps Herman neatly describes the two worlds she inhabited while growing up as the child of Italian American immigrants in Waterbury, Connecticut, a place embedded with values closer to Homer's Greece than to Anglo-American New England, where the ethic of hospitality was and still is more Middle Eastern and North African than Anglo-European, and where the pageantry and ritual were more pagan Mediterranean than Western Christian. It was also a place where a stuffed monkey wearing a fedora sat and continues to sit on her grandmother's piano, and a place where, when the donkey got stubborn and wouldn't plow the field, her grandfather bit the animal in a fury. In essays filled with wry humor and affectionate yet probing insights, Herman maps and makes palpable the very particular details of this culture—its pride and its shame, its profound loyalty and its Byzantine betrayals.SUNY series in Italian/American culture.Italian AmericansConnecticutWaterburyBiographyItalian AmericansConnecticutWaterburySocial life and customsWaterbury (Conn.)BiographyItalian AmericansItalian AmericansSocial life and customs.973/.0451Herman Joanna Clapps1814143MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963282103321The anarchist bastard4367801UNINA