The Italian American Heritage: A Companion to Literature and Arts (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

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A collection of 27 original essays some formal and some personal document the history of Italian American culture for general readers and for teachers of multicultural studies. They investigate Italian-American identity and contributions to American culture through accounts of everyday life fiction films poetry music customs traditions social mores religion and other features. Among the contributors are an anthropologist a playwright several poets and novelists a singer an opera critic and several literary critics and cultural historians. The chronology begins of course with 1492; the lexicon does not indicate pronunciation. Double spaced. Annotation c. by Book News Inc. Portland Or.