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Excelsior editions. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Many missing stones -- What does it mean to be italian? -- Quando sono Italiana: when I am Italian -- Waterbury, Connecticut, my ancestral village -- Up the farm -- What crawls around inside -- Housing memory -- Blue -- What we remember -- Go fish -- Food, food, food and work -- Creature life -- My mother's letter to her sister -- Hard work and good food -- Sunday on the farm -- My only Irish aunt -- Minestra means soup -- Move to America -- Chiesta ca or this one here -- After Eden -- Square feet in the village -- My friend elizabeth -- On not writing my thesis -- Italia, sempre Italia -- Southern italy -- The stones of dialect -- Siamo arrivati -- Intro to that winter evening -- That winter evening -- My Neapolitan wedding -- The opposite of southern italy -- After the manner of women -- The grief estate -- Visiting our dead -- My father's bones -- Voglio bene -- Somewhere my Bill. |
| Summary |
"My American ancestral Italian village 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, Herman takes a complicated and nuanced look at the question of to whom and to which culture she ultimately belongs. Sometimes the Italian part of her identity--her Italianità--feels so aboriginal as to be inchoate, unexpressible. Sometimes it finds its expression in the rhythms of daily life. Sometimes it is embraced and enhanced; at others, it feels attenuated. "If, like me," Herman writes, "you are from one of Italy's overseas colonies, at least some of this Italianità will be in your skin, bones, and heart: other pieces have to be understood, considered, called to ourselves through study, travel, reading. How do we know which pieces are which?"--Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Herman, Joanna Clapps.
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Herman, Joanna Clapps. |
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Herman, Joanna Clapps -- Family.
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Families. |
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Herman, Joanna Clapps -- Travel -- Italy.
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Travel. |
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Italy. |
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Italian Americans -- Biography.
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Italian Americans -- Biography. |
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Italian American women -- Biography.
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Italian American women. |
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Biographies.
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Italian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
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Italian Americans -- Ethnic identity. |
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Italian Americans. |
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Italian Americans -- Connecticut -- Waterbury -- Social life and customs.
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Connecticut -- Waterbury. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Waterbury (Conn.) -- Biography.
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Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Herman, Joanna Clapps. When I am Italian. Excelsior editions. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, Albany, [2020] 9781438477183 (DLC) 2019000459 (OCoLC)1083179096 |
| ISBN |
9781438477190 (electronic book) |
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1438477198 (electronic book) |
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9781438477183 |
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143847718X |
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