The Italian-American Writer. An Essay and an Annotated Checklist

The crosspollination of literature and lyrics is not a new phenomenon in popular music, and classics of world literature continue to inspire songwriters who incorporate them in their art in different ways and forms. Although perhaps not yet quite recognized as a classic author, the Italian-American novelist John Fante has had an impact on popular culture and music both in Italy and in the United States. Reviewing a range of Italian and American songs that draw inspiration from Arturo Bandini, the protagonist of Fante’s saga, this essay explores the relationship among literature, music, and society through a reflection on the impact that a non-canonical American writer has on popular culture and how his ethnic experience reverberates in the singer/reader/listener’s life before earning approval from mainstream critics.

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To Hyphenate or Not to Hyphenate: The Italian/American Writer, an Other American

World Literature Today ◽

10.2307/40149058 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 67 (1) ◽

pp. 247

Author(s):

William A. Nericcio ◽

Anthony Julian Tamburri

Keyword(s):

American Writer ◽

Italian American

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A Semiotic of Ethnicity: In (Re) cognition of the Italian/American Writer

Quaderni d'italianistica ◽

10.33137/q.i..v19i2.9481 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 169-172

Author(s):

Anthony Julian Tamburri (book author) ◽

Robert Buranello (review author)

Keyword(s):

American Writer ◽

Italian American

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Chapter 13: FACT IN FICTION: ORAL TRADITIONS AND THE ITALIAN AMERICAN WRITER

Center for Migration Studies special issues ◽

10.1111/j.2050-411x.1988.tb00577.x ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 165-174

Author(s):

Fred L. Gardaphe

Keyword(s):

Oral Traditions ◽

American Writer ◽

Italian American

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La poesia Beat in Italia: uno studio translocal

Annali di Ca’ Foscari Serie occidentale ◽

10.30687/annoc/2499-1562/2018/01/006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Alessandro Clericuzio

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Beat Generation ◽

American Writer ◽

Italian American ◽

Italian Culture ◽

Beat Poetry ◽

Geographical Scope ◽

Beat Poets

Building on recent transnational Beat Generation scholarship and focusing on poetry, this essay aims to expand the geographical scope of Beat culture by including Italy. It does so considering a number of questions, such as what ties Beat poets had with Italy and Italian culture; how and when their texts migrated to Italy and with what effects on the receiving culture, including publishers, journalists, general readers and poets. It investigates the ramifications of Beat poetry as a transatlantic flux between the United States and Italy during roughly two and a half decades (1956-1980), re-discovering an otherwise neglected Italian American writer, and assessing whether the Beats’ aesthetics did impact Italian culture glocally.

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Ellis Island

Polisemie ◽

10.31273/polisemie.v1.605 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 23-46

Author(s):

Erica Verducci

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Third Generation ◽

American Writer ◽

Ellis Island ◽

The Third ◽

Italian American ◽

True Meaning ◽

Static Version

Italian-American writer of the third-generation Robert Viscusi tells about the migratory tragedy of Italians in North America in his Ellis Island, a strongly innovative collection which combines history and autobiography. The poem consists of 624 sonnets unfolding through personal memories, historical researches and bold metaphors. The well-known opposition between earth and sea becomes here a match and a very realistic argument on the idea of transformation and mutability typical of a part of humanity that changes through migration. Ellis Island is the final place of changes, just as the poem itself, which can be read in the printed and static version, but also in the ever-changing, randomly generated one, available on the dedicated website by the author’s decision. A form in line with the content and its true meaning.

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