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

The Italian American Heritage: A Companion to Literature and Arts (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by D'Acierno, Pellegrino A. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780815303800.

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.