LEADER 04122nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910963282103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781438436333 010 $a1438436335 010 $a9781441688910 010 $a1441688919 024 7 $a10.1515/9781438436333 035 $a(CKB)2670000000090634 035 $a(OCoLC)710992915 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10574041 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000466924 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11277270 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000466924 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10466540 035 $a(PQKB)10996800 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407180 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10574041 035 $a(OCoLC)923402384 035 $a(DE-B1597)683117 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438436333 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407180 035 $a(Perlego)2672026 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000090634 100 $a20100803d2011 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe anarchist bastard $egrowing up Italian in America /$fJoanna Clapps Herman 210 $aAlbany $cExcelsior Editions/State University of New York Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (262 p.) 225 1 $aSUNY series in Italian/American culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781438436326 311 08$a1438436327 311 08$a9781438436319 311 08$a1438436319 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tWith and Without Words -- $tHomer in Waterbury: The Backdrop -- $tMy Homer -- $tThe Unsayable: The Clapps Family -- $tPeter and His Brothers -- $tPaulie e ?u Gagaron? -- $tMy Father Telling Stories -- $tThe Unsayable -- $tBefore and After Tinfoil: The Becce Family -- $tThe Anarchist Bastard -- $tRille -- $tWaiting for Vito -- $tTre? Casse -- $tKeeping Company -- $tFlesh and Bone -- $tBoth Are True -- $tTwo -- $tBefore and After Tinfoil -- $tStitching Our Voices Together -- $tCoffee And -- $tWords and Rags -- $tMy AboriginalWomen -- $tUffa: Jojo the Monkey -- $tDropping in on Sandy -- $tNotes of an Unredeemed Catholic -- $tE ? Poi? And Then? -- $t?U Bizz? di Creanz?: A Piece of Politeness -- $tIn Absence -- $tWithout My Tribe -- $tThe Discourse of un? Propria Papon? -- $tLotions, Potions, and Solutions -- $tAnd La La La -- $tPsychic Arrangements 330 $aFinalist for the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Autobiography/Memoir Category"I was born in 1944, but raised in the twelfth century." With that, Joanna Clapps Herman neatly describes the two worlds she inhabited while growing up as the child of Italian American immigrants in Waterbury, Connecticut, a place embedded with values closer to Homer's Greece than to Anglo-American New England, where the ethic of hospitality was and still is more Middle Eastern and North African than Anglo-European, and where the pageantry and ritual were more pagan Mediterranean than Western Christian. It was also a place where a stuffed monkey wearing a fedora sat and continues to sit on her grandmother's piano, and a place where, when the donkey got stubborn and wouldn't plow the field, her grandfather bit the animal in a fury. In essays filled with wry humor and affectionate yet probing insights, Herman maps and makes palpable the very particular details of this culture?its pride and its shame, its profound loyalty and its Byzantine betrayals. 410 0$aSUNY series in Italian/American culture. 606 $aItalian Americans$zConnecticut$zWaterbury$vBiography 606 $aItalian Americans$zConnecticut$zWaterbury$xSocial life and customs 607 $aWaterbury (Conn.)$vBiography 615 0$aItalian Americans 615 0$aItalian Americans$xSocial life and customs. 676 $a973/.0451 700 $aHerman$b Joanna Clapps$01814143 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963282103321 996 $aThe anarchist bastard$94367801 997 $aUNINA