Italian Folk : Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives.
Sciorra, Joseph.
Italian Folk : Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (269 pages) - Critical Studies in Italian America . - Critical Studies in Italian America .
Intro -- 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.
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.
9780823232673
Italian Americans - Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
GR111.I73 -- I85 2011eb
398.208951073
Italian Folk : Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (269 pages) - Critical Studies in Italian America . - Critical Studies in Italian America .
Intro -- 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.
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.
9780823232673
Italian Americans - Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
GR111.I73 -- I85 2011eb
398.208951073