Re-reading Italian Americana

Anthony Julian Tamburri is dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College, CUNY.

Preface
Preliminaries
Chapter 1: The Italian/American Writer in “Exile”: At Home, Abroad, Wherever! (13)
Specificities of Reading Prose
Chapter 2: Pietro di Donato’s Christ In Concrete: An Italian/American Novel Not Set in Stone
Chapter 3: Mario Puzo’s The Fortunate Pilgrim: The Italian’s “American Dream” of “Staying Alive”
Chapter 4: Luigi Barzini, Jr.: From Italian “Immigrant” to “Italian American”
Specificities of Reading Poetry
Chapter 5: Joseph Tusiani’s Gente Mia: Coincidences of E[im]migration
Chapter 6: Rina Ferrarelli’s The Bread We Ate: Looking Back in Order to Move Forward?
Chapter 7: Maria Mazziotti Gillan’s Where I Come From: Making Connections and Passing Them On
(In)conclusions
Chapter 8: Beyond “Pizza” and “Nonna”! Or, Further Directions for Italian/American Textual Criticism and Cultural Studies
Index of Names
About the Author