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Through the Periscope
(May 2022)
Changing Culture, Italian America
Martino Marazzi - Author
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Offers a wider approach to Italian American culture, one that stresses both its material, urban components and the creativity of its formal literary codes.
The constant dialogue between literary forms of the Old and the New World is the core concern of the essays in Through the Periscope, which examine these ever-changing historical, intellectual, and psychological landscape...(Read More) |
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Engaging Italy
(April 2022)
American Women's Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks
Etta M. Madden - Author
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Traces literary and social connections among three American women navigating the changing political landscape of 1860s and '70s Italy.
Engaging Italy charts the intertwined lives and writings of three American women in Italy in the 1860s and '70s—journalist Anne Hampton Brewster (1818–92), orphanage and industrial school founder Emily Bliss Gould (1825–75), and translator Ca...(Read More) |
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The Godfather and Sicily
(July 2021)
Power, Honor, Family, and Evil
Raymond Angelo Belliotti - Author
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Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence.
In this interdisciplinary work, Raymond Angelo Belliotti presents an interpretation of The Godfather as, among other things, a commentary on the transformation of personal identity within the Sicilian and Italian immigrant experience. The book explores both the novel and the film sequen...(Read More) |
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Open Borders
(March 2021)
Encounters between Italian Philosophy and Continental Thought
Silvia Benso - Editor
Antonio Calcagno - Editor
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Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.
In order to create a greater dialogue between new and emerging Italian philosophy and established continental traditions of thought, Silvia Benso and Antonio Calcagno bring together the work of well-known figures in Italian philoso...(Read More) |
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Intersecting Diasporas
(January 2021)
Italian Americans and Allyship in US Fiction
Suzanne Manizza Roszak - Author
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Examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction.
Intersecting Diasporas examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction. Rewriting the Anglo-American genre of the “Italian novel,” authors like James Ba...(Read More) |
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Sense of Origins
(September 2020)
A Study of New York's Young Italian Americans
Rosemary Serra - Author
Scott R. Kapuscinski - Translator
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Studies the relationship between young Italian Americans and their Italian cultural and historical heritage.
In Sense of Origins, Rosemary Serra explores the lives of a significant group of self-identified young Italian Americans residing in New York City and its surrounding areas. The book presents and examines the results of a survey she conducted of their values, family ...(Read More) |
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Fearless
(May 2020)
A. Bartlett Giamatti and the Battle for Fairness in America
Neil Thomas Proto - Author
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Biography of the early years of A. Bartlett Giamatti, who would become Yale University’s first non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant president and commissioner of Major League Baseball.
Finalist for the 2020 ForeWord INDIE Book of the Year in the Biography Category
In 1977, a thirty-nine-year-old Italian American professor of Renaissance literature, A. Bartlett Giamatt...(Read More) |
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When I Am Italian
(November 2019)
Joanna Clapps Herman - Author
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Can a person born outside of Italy be considered Italian?
“My ancestral Italian village in America was in Waterbury, Connecticut.” In this sentence, Joanna Clapps Herman raises the central question of this book: To what extent can a person born outside of Italy be considered Italian? The granddaughter of Italian immigrants who arrived in the United States in the early 1900s, Clapps Herman takes a complicated and ...(Read More) |
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The Autobiography of a Language
(August 2019)
Emanuel Carnevali's Italian/American Writing
Andrea Ciribuco - Author
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Explores the links between language, cultural identity, and creativity through the works of Emanuel Carnevali, one of the first Italian American authors to attain literary recognition.
The Autobiography of a Language is an exploration of the deep and powerful ties between language and identity, focusing on an Italian American author and addressing global themes of modern writing. This is the first extensive, book-length w...(Read More) |
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Facing toward the Dawn
(January 2019)
The Italian Anarchists of New London
Richard Lenzi - Author
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Examines the history of the Italian anarchist movement in New London, Connecticut.
In the early twentieth century, the Italian American radical movement thrived in industrial cities throughout the United States, including New London, Connecticut. Facing toward the Dawn tells the history of the vibrant anarchist movement that existed in New London’s Fort Trumbull neighborhood for seventy years. Comprised of immigrants fro...(Read More) |
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