Selected Resources on Italian American Studies (Prof. Fulganiti)
A. GENERAL AND REFERENCE:
- Cinotto, Simone. (Ed.) All Things Italian: Italian American Consumers, the Transnational Formation of Taste, and the Commodification of Difference. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.
- Connell, Willian, and Fred Gardaphe (Eds.) Anti-Italianism: Essays on a prejudice. New York: Palgrave, 2010.
- Guglielmo, Jennifer, and Salerno Salvatore (Eds.) Are Italians White? How Race is Made in America. New York & London: Routledge, 2003.
- The Italian American Experience: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Salvatore J. LaGumina, Frank J. Cavaioli, Salvatore Primeggia, Joseph A. Varacalli. New York, Garland: 2000.
- Mangione, Jerry and Ben Morreale. La storia. Five Centuries of The Italian American Experience. New York-London: Harper Perennial, 1992.
- Parati, Graziella, and Anthony J. Tamburri. (Eds). The Cultures of Italian Migration: Diverse Trajectories and Discrete Perspectives. Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011.
- Serra, Ilaria. The Imagined Immigrant. Images of Italian Emigration to the United States 1890 and 1924. Madison/Teaneck: Farleigh Dickinson Press, 2009.
B. LITERARY CRITICISM AND TEXTUAL ANALYSIS:
- Bonomo Albright, Carola, & Christine Palamidessi Moore. (Eds.) American Woman, Italian Style: Italian Americana's Best Writings on Women. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010.
- Giunta. Edvige. Writing with an Accent. Contemporary Italian American Women Authors. New York: Palgrave; 2002. ß
- Gardaphé, Fred. Leaving Little Italy. Essaying Italian American Culture. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004.
- Pivato, Joseph. (Ed) Contrasts. Comparative Essays on Italian-Canadian Writing. Toronto: Guernica, 1991.
- Serra, Ilaria. Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies. New York: Fordham University press, 2010.
- Tamburri, Anthony J. Rereading Italian Americana. Specificities and Generalities of Literature and Criticism. Madison/Teaneck: Farleigh Dickinson Press, 2013.
C. THEORIES RELEVANT TO THE STUDY OF MIGRANT LITERATURE
- Chambers, Iain. Migrancy, Culture, Identity. New York/London: Routledge, 1994.
- Deleuze, Gilles & Félix Guattari. “What is a Minor Literature?” Kafka: For a Minor Literature. English transl. Dana Polan. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Literature, 1975. 16-27.
D. NONFICTION (memoirs, autobiographies, creative non-fiction)
- Barolini, Helen. A Circular Journey. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010.
- ---. Festa: Recipes and Recollections of Italian Holidays. Madison, University of Wisconsin Madison Press, 2002.
- DeSalvo, Louise. On Moving: A Writer's Meditation on New Houses, Old Haunts, and Finding Home Again. -Berlin-London: Bloomsbury, 2009.
- ---. Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family. New York-Berlin-London: Bloomsbury, 2008.
- ---. Writing as a Way of healing. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.
- D’Angelo, Pascal. Son of Italy. [1924] Toronto: Guernica, 2003.
- Mangione, Jerry. Mount Allegro: A Memoir of an Italian Life [1943]. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998.
E. NARRATIVE FICTION
- De Salvo, Louise. Casting Off. [1976] New York: Bordighera, 2013.
- De Rose, Tina. Paper Fish. [1980] New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY,2003
- Di Donato, Pietro. Christ In Concrete. [1939] New York: Penguin, Signet Classic Edition, 1993.
- Fante, John. Wait Until Spring, Bandini! [1938] (multiple editions)
- ---. Ask the Dust [1939] (multiple editions)
- --- The Wine of Youth [1940] (multiple editions)
- --- The road to Los Angeles [1985] (multiple editions)
- Puzo, Mario, The Godfather [1969] (multiple editions)
- Ricci, Nino. Lives of the Saints [1990].
- ---.In a Glass House, Toronto: McClelland & Steward, 1993.
- ---- Where has she gone. Toronto: Chatto & Windus, 1997.
- ----.The origin of Species. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2012
F. POETRY
- Bonaffini, Luigi, and Luigi Perricone. Poets of the Italian Diaspora. New York: Fordham, 2014.
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. A Coney Island of the Mind [1958] New York: New Directions, 1998.
G. ANTHOLOGIES & COLLECTIONS
- De Franceschi, Marisa. Pillars of Lace. The Anthology of Italian-Canadian Women Writers. Toronto: Guernica, 1998.
- Durante, Francesco. Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943. (English edition: Robert Viscusi). New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.
- Gillian, Jennifer, and Edvige Giunta (Eds.) Italian American Writers on New Jersey. An Anthology of Poetry and Prose. Newark: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
- Marazzi, Martino. (Ed.) Voices of Italian America. A History of Early Italian American literature with a Critical Anthology. (Trans. Ann Goldstein) New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.
- Pivato, Joseph (Ed.) The Anthology of Italian-Canadian Writing. Toronto: Guernica, 1998.
H. CINEMA:
Silent films & early cinema
- Wallace Mc. Hutcheon (Dir). The Black Hand (1906) [Available on Blackboard]
- D. W. Griffith. (Dir.) “In Little Italy” (1912)
Post- 1950 fiction
- Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci (Dirs.) Big Night (1996)
- Francis Ford Coppola. The Godfather (1972); The Godfather II (1974); The Godfather III (1990).
- Spike Lee - Summer of Sam (1999); Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
- Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas (1990); Mean Streets (1993)
- John Turturro. Mac (1992).
Documentaries
- John Turturro. Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy (D; 2009); Passione (D; 2010)
- The Italian Americans. (PBS) TV Series, 5 episodes [All available on Blackboard]
Secondary sources on cinema:
- Cavallero, Jonathan. Hollywood’s Italian American Filmmakers: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino . Champaign, University of Illinois Press, 2011
- Tamburri, Anthony J. Re-viewing Italian Americana: Generalities and Specificities on Cinema. New York: Bordighera Press, 2011.
- Camaiti Hostert, Anna, & Anthony Julian Tamburri (Eds) Screening Ethnicity: Cinematographic Representations of Italian Americans in the United States. New York: Bordighera Press, 2002.
I. USEFUL WEBSITES
J. ACADEMIC JOURNALS & REVIEWS
- Italian Americana. (1974-2015: printed by Queens University Press until 1989, then University of Rhode Island).
- Italian-Canadiana (printed by the Frank Jacobucci Center at the University of Toronto)
- The Italian American Review
- VIA: Voices in Italian Americana (the semi-annual review Bordighera Press).