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A New Language, a New World : Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Statue of Liberty Ellis Island SeriesPublisher: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (261 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252090776
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A New Language, a New WorldDDC classification:
  • 305.89451/073
LOC classification:
  • E184
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- 1. The Italian Languages in Italy and America -- 2. Linguistic Boundaries in American History -- PART TWO -- 3. "He could not explain things the way I tell it": The Immigrant in Translation -- 4. The World Turned Upside Down in Farfariello's Theater of Language -- 5. The Identity Politics of Language: Italian Language Maintenance in New York City, 1920-40 -- 6. Language, Italian American Identity, and the Limits of Cultural Pluralism in the World War II Years -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- 1. The Italian Languages in Italy and America -- 2. Linguistic Boundaries in American History -- PART TWO -- 3. "He could not explain things the way I tell it": The Immigrant in Translation -- 4. The World Turned Upside Down in Farfariello's Theater of Language -- 5. The Identity Politics of Language: Italian Language Maintenance in New York City, 1920-40 -- 6. Language, Italian American Identity, and the Limits of Cultural Pluralism in the World War II Years -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.

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