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A Season in Florida
Fiction. A SEASON IN FLORIDA is Emanuele Pettener's debut book of fiction in English. Prolific in Italian with three novels, he now offers to the North American audience some of his delightfully funny, yet sober, short fiction, which nicely complements his previously published novels.
When We Were Bandini
John Fante's work has consistently delved into profound themes, including the elusive American Dream, the delicate psychology of immigrants, and the intricate dynamics of Italian American families. This study reveals the ingenious manner in which Fante employs humor and satire as powerful rhetorical devices to breathe life into his Italian, Italian American, and American characters. Drawing inspiration from literary giants such as Luigi Pirandello and René Girard, the author embarks on a fascinating journey into Fante's rich literary landscape. When We Were Bandini also offers an engaging comparison between Fante's works and those of other authors like Cervantes, Hamsun, Bukowski, and even his own son, Dan Fante. This comparative analysis sheds light on the possible reasons behind Fante's unique status: he is a cult writer in Europe, relatively underappreciated in his home country, the United States. Challenging the conventional notions of Fante as a strictly autobiographical and confessional writer, the author urges readers to look beyond the surface and unravel the layers of his literary genius.
Doors of the Past
Doors of the Past is a memoir which aims to analyze the narrator’s attraction towards the American dream and the United States, her native country left as a child. Born in the Bronx in an Italian family, she grew up in a rural setting in Irpinia where her father, during a vacation, in a rapture of nostalgia, decided to come back after a seven year stay in New York. The author explores her family history of migration; her deep intergenerational relationships with north America; her great fascination towards New England, where part of her family moved tracing a new interesting life path and where she had dreamt to move after taking her university degree. Thanks to the English language aspects of Italianità, that have always caused her strong feelings of discomfort and rejection, are deeply investigated. If you were born in a place and grow up in another one, you miss the language and who knows what else!
Emilio Salgari
Who created the most famous Southeast Asian hero during the heyday of imperialism and colonialism? Who inaugurated with The Mysteries of the Black Jungle over a century long link uniting the Italian imaginary to the Indian one? Who envisioned the most celebrated interracial love stories of world literature, those between Sandokan, leader of the Tigers of Mompracem, and Marianna, the Pearl of Labuan, between Tremal-Naik, the Bengali snake catcher, and Ada, the Virgin of Kali’s temple at the time of the British Raj? Who defined the Caribbean as a symbolic trope of plunder and rebellion through the melancholic viewpoint of the Black Corsair and the forsaken love for his enemy’s daughter? Wh...
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Proust per bagnanti
Novembre 2001, tre storie d’italiani negli Stati Uniti, ciascuno con un segreto in tasca, s’intrecciano in South Florida. L’incredibile storia di Rosa, il suo viaggio prima in Calabria e poi a Venezia, alla ricerca di un passato da ricostruire. Alfredo Crepuscolo, studente d’arte, che arriva in America all’alba del 2000 “colmo d’euforia da pioniere, come fosse il primo italiano dopo Colombo ad esplorare il Nuovo Continente”. E poi il narratore stesso con la sua fosca vicenda familiare, a metà degli anni ’90, e il suo “American Dream” sullo sfondo maestoso del Canal Grande. Tre storie in una, fitte di emozioni e colpi di scena, di sorprese, per i personaggi e per il lettore, nella luce ilare e colorata del sud tropicale americano, davanti a un oceano brillante, “imperturbabile come un gentleman inglese”.
Arancio
Esmusséin, Islanda. Tommaso Arancio, maestro di tango, trascorre placidamente le sue serate al pub La Sardina Celibe, sorbendo grog e ascoltando la band “I Salmoni Arrabbiati”. Una notte, fuseaux gialli e una pelliccia di finto pelo, viola come un tramonto artico, entra nel locale lei, la grassona, la donna più ricca d’America. La grassona squadra Tommaso e se ne innamora pazzamente, offrendogli un lavoro nella redazione del suo giornale, il Baja Topón Post. Tommaso si trasferisce così a Baja Topón, in South Florida, scintillante cittadina di miliardari e criminali in pensione, dove dovrà vedersela con le avances della grassona e coi personaggi d’ogni sorta che incontra, compreso un barista che afferma di essere Dio, e che suggerisce a Tommaso una cosa che risulterà difficilissima – come per tutti – da mettere in pratica: fa’ quello che vuoi.
New Italian Migrations to the United States
This second volume of New Italian Migrations to the United States explores the evolution of art and cultural expressions created by and about Italian immigrants and their descendants since 1945. The essays range from an Italian-language radio program that broadcast intimate messages from family members in Italy to the role of immigrant cookbook writers in crafting a fashionable Italian food culture. Other works look at how exoticized actresses like Sophia Loren and Pier Angeli helped shape a glamorous Italian style out of images of desperate postwar poverty; overlooked forms of brain drain; the connections between countries old and new in the works of Michigan self-taught artist Silvio Barile; and folk revival performer Alessandra Belloni's reinterpretation of tarantella dance and music for Italian American women. In the afterword, Anthony Julian Tamburri discusses the nomenclature ascribed to Italian American creative writers living in Italy and the United States. Contributors: John Allan Cicala, Simone Cinotto, Teresa Fiore, Incoronata (Nadia) Inserra, Laura E. Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra, and Anthony Julian Tamburri.
Teaching Freedom
Starting in the early 1900s, male and female elementary schoolteachers in Italy gained increasing awareness of the role of social workers in the fight against illiteracy and in creating civic consciousness based on widespread, qualified education. In 1900, the Unione Magistrale (the Teachers Association) was founded; in 1919, the Sindacato Magistrale (the Italian Teachers Union, a member of the General Confederation of Labor) was created. Inevitably, some of these teachers, firmly convinced of their duty, opposed fascism which, from the moment it originated, aimed at creating obedient boys who were loyal to fascist doctrine and trained in warfare, and girls ready to become the mothers and wi...
The Monk of Park Avenue
Priceless Wisdom from a Modern Tao Te Ching Odyssey “...this book will completely absorb your attention from the beginning...” —Emanuele Pettener, PhD, assistant professor of Italian and writer in residence at Florida Atlantic University #1 New Release in Chinese Poetry, Asian Poetry, and Tao Te Ching A literary memoir like no other, Monk of Park Avenue recounts novelist and martial master Monk Yon Rou’s spiritual journey of self-discovery. Learn from Yon Rou as he tackles tragedy and redemption on an unforgettable soul-searching odyssey. A spiritual journey with extraordinary encounters. Yon Rou’s memoir is a kaleidoscopic ride through the upper echelons of New York Society and th...
