The anarchist bastard : growing up Italian in America / / Joanna Clapps Herman

• Autore: Herman Joanna Clapps
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 973/.0451
• Soggetto topico: Italian Americans - Connecticut - Waterbury; Italian Americans - Connecticut - Waterbury - Social life and customs
• Soggetto geografico: Waterbury (Conn.) Biography
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Arrangements
• Sommario/riassunto: Finalist 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The anarchist bastard
• ISBN: 9781438436333; 1438436335; 9781441688910; 1441688919
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910963282103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series in Italian/American culture.