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Italian Folk : Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Studies in Italian AmericaPublisher: US : Fordham University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823232673
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Italian FolkDDC classification:
  • 398.208951073
LOC classification:
  • GR111.I73 -- I85 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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