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No.1 | Vol. 7, No.2 The Italian American Review Volume 8 Number 2
Autumn/Winter2001 A Special Issue on Italian American Folklore
CONTENTS Articles Introduction Joseph
Sciorra, Guest Editor.............................. “Sunday Dinner? You Had
To Be There!” The Social Significance of Food in Italian Harlem, 1920-1940 Simone
Cinotto............................................................ Cursed Flesh: Faith
Healers, Black Magic, and (Re-membering) Death in a
Central Italian Town Luisa
Del Giudice........................................................ Imagining the Strega:
Folklore Reclamation and the Construction of Italian
American Witchcraft Sabina
Magliocco........................................................ Italians in Public
Memory: Pagentry, Power, and Imagining the Italian American Joan
Saverino.............................................................. Creative Responses to the
Italian Immigrant Experience in California: Baldassare Forestiere’s
“Underground Gardens” and Simon Rodia’s “Watts
Towers” Kenneth
Scambray ....................................................... Imagined Places, Fragile
Landscapes: Italian American Presepi (nativity
créches) in New York City Joseph
Sciorra.............................................................. Notes and Documents Theresa Schiavone’s
Memoir: A Life in Williamsbridge, the
Bronx................................................................................... Book Reviews Claiming A Tradition:
Italian American Women Writers by
Mary Jo Bona Review
by Roseanne Giannini Quinn........................... Rosa: The Life of an
Italian Immigrant by
Mary Hall Ets Review
by Caterina Stefania Romeo............................ Writing With an Accent:
Contemporary Italian American Women Authors by
Edvige Giunta Review
by Alessandra Masolini.................................. The Discovery of America/
La Scoperta dell’America: An Autobiography/Un’autobiografia by
Carmine Biagio Iannace Review
by Teresa Fiore............................................... Were You Always an
Italian? Ancestors and other Icons of Italian America by
Maria Laurino Review
by Mary Jo Bona............................................ Hey Paesan! Writings by
Lesbians and Gay Men of Italian Descent Denise
Nico Leto, Tommi Avicolli,
Janet Capone, eds. Review by George De
Stefano.................................... Mediterranean Crossroads:
Migration Literature in Italy Graziella
Parati, ed. Review
by Pasquale Verdicchio.................................... The Review of Italian
American Studies Frank
M. Sorrentino and Jerome Krase, eds. Review
by Nicholas DeMaria Harney.......................... The Saints in the Lives
of Italian Americans: An Interdisciplinary Investigation Joseph
A Varacalli, Salvatore Primeggia
Salvatore J. LaGumina, and Donald J D’Elia, eds. Review
by Leonard Norman Primiano......................... [Return to the The Italian American Review page.] |
