Voices in Italian Americana

a literary and cultural review


Volume 10         Spring 1999        Number 1


Table of Contents

 

Guest Spot

    Daniela Gioseffi

    Gretna Wilkinson

 

Critical Essays

    Brunella Bigi

        Ethnicity and Its Discontent: Reading Italians in

        Multicultural Societies

    Paul S. Giaimo

        The Ethnic Trickster’s Carnival in Twentieth-Century African-

        American and Italian-American Short Fiction

    Frank J. Cavaioli  

        Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar Discover

        Christopher Columbus

    Stephen Paul Miller

         Scrutinizing Maria Mazziotti Gillan’s Where I Come From

 

Non-Fiction

    Maria Mazziotti Gillan

        Carlton Fredericks and My Mother

    Maria Troia

        Food, Women, and Love

    George DeStefano

        Pane, Vino, e Finocchio: In (Gay) Sicilia

    Susan Raffo

        How I Became Italian: A Performance Piece

 

Fiction

    Joe Amato

        “Salt City” from No Outlet: An Engineer in the Works

    Diva Daims

       A Promise Kept

    David Della Fera

        A Trip Home

    Dina Di Maio

        Taking Rocky Marciano Down

    Chickie Farella

        Ciao Giulia

    Carmine Sarracino

        Waiting for Nonna

 

Italian Writing in North America

    Alessandro Vettori

        Le piaghe di Agata

        Agatha’s Sores

 

Review Essay

    Antonia Moras

        Village Elegy

 

Reviews

    Laura Assmuth. Women’s Work, Women’s Worth:

        Changing Lifecourses in Highland Sardinia

         (Gloria Nardini)

    Helen Barolini. Umbertina (Mary Ann Mannino)

    Mario B. Mignone. Italy Today: At the Crossroads of the

        New Millennium. Revised Edition (Paolo Possiedi)

    Raymond Petrillo, ed. and trans. Contrappunti/Counterpoints.

        Selected Poems of Giovanni Cecchetti (Antonio Vitti)