The anarchist bastard :: growing up Italian in America /

A tribute to the Italian American family and its trying bonds of love. "I was born in 1944, but raised in the twelfth century." With that, Joanna Clapps Herman neatly describes the two worlds she inhabited while growing up as the child of Italian American immigrants in Waterbury, Connectic...

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1. Verfasser: Herman, Joanna Clapps (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, ©2011.
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series in Italian/American culture.
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Zusammenfassung:A tribute to the Italian American family and its trying bonds of love. "I was born in 1944, but raised in the twelfth century." With that, Joanna Clapps Herman neatly describes the two worlds she inhabited while growing up as the child of Italian American immigrants in Waterbury, Connecticut, a place embedded with values closer to Homer's Greece than to Anglo-American New England, where the ethic of hospitality was and still is more Middle Eastern and North African than Anglo-European, and where the pageantry and ritual were more pagan Mediterranean than Western Christian. It was also a place where a stuffed monkey wearing a fedora sat and continues to sit on her grandmother's piano, and a place where, when the donkey got stubborn and wouldn't plow the field, her grandfather bit the animal in a fury. In essays filled with wry humor and affectionate yet probing insights, Herman maps and makes palpable the very particular details of this culture-its pride and its shame, its profound loyalty and its Byzantine betrayals. Joanna Clapps Herman teaches creative writing in the MAW program at Manhattanville College and at the Center for Worker Education, a division of City College of New York. She is the coeditor (with Carol Bonomo Albright) of Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana and (with Lee Gutkind) of Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: Creative Nonfiction Collects New Essays by Italian-American Writers. She lives in New York City.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 244 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781441688910
1441688919
9781438436333
1438436335

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