New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 1: Politics and History since 1945, Laura E Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra

Автор: Giunta Edvige, Sciorra Joseph
Название: Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women`s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora
ISBN: 1496804597 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496804594
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to help define who they were and who they have become. This book is an interdisciplinary collection of creative work by authors of Italian origin and academic essays.

Автор: Briscese Rosangela, Sciorra Joseph
Название: Graces Received: Painted and Metal Ex-Votos from Italy
ISBN: 0970340370 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780970340375
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Автор: Sciorra Joseph
Название: Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives
ISBN: 0823232654 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823232659
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at best. For many people, these scenarios trigger ingrained assumptions about individuals’ beliefs, politics, aesthetics, values, and behaviors that leave little room for nuance and elaboration. This collection of essays explores local knowledge and aesthetic practices, often marked as “folklore,” as sources for creativity and meaning in Italian-American lives. As the contributors demonstrate, folklore provides contemporary scholars with occasions for observing and interpreting behaviors and objects as part of lived experiences. Its study provides new ways of understanding how individuals and groups reproduce and contest identities and ideologies through expressive means.
Italian Folk offers an opportunity to reexamine and rethink what we know about Italian Americans. The contributors to this unique book discuss historic and contemporary cultural expressions and religious practices from various parts of the United States and Canada to examine how they operate at local, national, and transnational levels. The essays attest to people’s ability and willingness to create and reproduce certain
cultural modes that connect them to social entities such as the family, the neighborhood, and the amorphous and fleeting communities that emerge in large-scale festivals and now on the Internet. Italian Americans abandon, reproduce, and/or revive various cultural elements in relationship to ever-shifting political, economic, and social conditions. The results are dynamic, hybrid cultural forms such as valtaro accordion music,
Sicilian oral poetry, a Columbus Day parade, and witchcraft (stregheria).
By taking a closer look and an ethnographic approach to expressive behavior, we see that Italian-American identity is far from being a linear path of assimilation from Italian immigrant to American of Italian descent but is instead fraught with conflict, negotiation, and creative solutions. Together, these essays illustrate how folklore is evoked in the continual process of identity revaluation and reformation.