LEADER 04468nam 22006855 450 001 9910781476103321 005 20230725050758.0 010 $a0-8147-2318-7 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814723180 035 $a(CKB)2550000000040790 035 $a(EBL)865394 035 $a(OCoLC)744333873 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000523588 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11342466 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523588 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10542799 035 $a(PQKB)11760369 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323752 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865394 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10878 035 $a(DE-B1597)548505 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814723180 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000040790 100 $a20200723h20112011 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aItalian Immigrant Radical Culture $eThe Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940 /$fMarcella Bencivenni 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2011] 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-4798-4902-2 311 0 $a0-8147-9103-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Italian American Radicalism: Old World Roots, New World Developments --$t2. The Sovversivi and Their Cultural World --$t3. A Literary Class War: The Italian American Radical Press --$t4. Politics and Leisure: The Italian American Radical Stage --$t5. Italian American Literary Radicalism --$t6. Arturo Giovannitti: Poet and Prophet of Labor --$t7. Allegories of Anti-Fascism: The Radical Cartoons of Fort Velona --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tGlossary of Frequently Used Italian Terms --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aMaligned by modern media and often stereotyped, Italian Americans possess a vibrant, if largely forgotten, radical past. In Italian Immigrant Radical Culture, Marcella Bencivenni delves into the history of the sovversivi, a transnational generation of social rebels, and offers a fascinating portrait of their political struggle as well as their milieu, beliefs, and artistic creativity in the United States. As early as 1882, the sovversivi founded a socialist club in Brooklyn. Radical organizations then multiplied and spread across the country, from large urban cities to smaller industrial mining areas. By 1900, thirty official Italian sections of the Socialist Party along the East Coast and countless independent anarchist and revolutionary circles sprang up throughout the nation. Forming their own alternative press, institutions, and working class organizations, these groups created a vigorous movement and counterculture that constituted a significant part of the American Left until World War II. Italian Immigrant Radical Culture compellingly documents the wide spectrum of this oppositional culture and examines the many cultural and artistic forms it took, from newspapers to literature and poetry to theater and visual art. As the first cultural history of Italian American activism, it provides a richer understanding of the Italian immigrant experience while also deepening historical perceptions of radical politics and culture. 606 $aItalian American literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aItalian Americans$xIntellectual life$y20th century 606 $aItalian Americans$xIntellectual life$y19th century 606 $aRadicalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRadicalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aItalian Americans$xPolitics and government$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aItalian Americans$xPolitics and government$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aItalian American literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aItalian Americans$xIntellectual life 615 0$aItalian Americans$xIntellectual life 615 0$aRadicalism$xHistory 615 0$aRadicalism$xHistory 615 0$aItalian Americans$xPolitics and government$xHistory 676 $a973.0451 700 $aBencivenni$b Marcella$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0618963 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781476103321 996 $aItalian immigrant radical culture$91070592 997 $aUNINA