Voices in Italian Americana

a literary and cultural review


Volume 5         Spring 1994        Number 1


Table of Contents

 

Guest Spot

    Daniela Gioseffi

        Introduction

    Ishmael Reed

        America: The Multinational Society

 

Interviews

    Fred Gardaphe

        A Conversation with Frank Lentricchia

        The Edge of Night (an excerpt) by Frank Lentricchia

    George De Stefano

        “Yo soy Boricua/Io sono Italiano”: Henry Fiol’s Italo-Rican Salsa

 

Oral History

    Edoardo Lébano and Paolo A. Giordano

        Oral Histories: Italian Immigration to Vermillion County

 

Essay

    Blossom Steinberg Kirschenbaum

        Albert Innaurato’s Plays: Bizarre Behavior in Bizarre

        America

         

Fiction

    Adele Regina La Barre

         Pomodori

    Rita Signorelli-Pappas

         Twilight Apprentice

    Gerald Perry

        Aunt Lizzie

    Rita Ciresi

        La Stella d’Oro

 

Poetry

    Rosemary Cappello

 

    Albert DeGenova

 

    Lz Giammarco

 

    Maria Mazziotti Gillan

 

    Daniela Gioseffi

 

    Julia Lisella

 

    Samuel Maio

 

    Joseph Maviglia

 

    Gianna Patriarca

 

    Antonio Vallone

 

   

Italian Writing in the United States

     Stelio Cro

        A un ingenuo e onesto professore

        Emulo

 

Review Essay

     RoseMarie LaValva

        Poetic Genealogies: Paolo Valesio Reads Gabriele D’Annunzio

 

Reviews

    Lenore Baeli Wang. Born in the Year of the Pink Sink (Lori Von Colln)

    Dorothy Bryant. Anita, Anita: Garibaldi of the New World (Mary Jo Bona)

    Peter Carravetta and Paolo Valesio, eds. Poesaggio: poeti italiani d’America

     Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum. Black Madonnas: feminism, religion, and politics in Italy (Mary Jo Bona)

    Stelio Cro. Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On: Pirandello and the Baroque (Stephen Martin)

    Joshua King. “The Last Enemy” and Other Stories

    Frank Lentricchia. The Edge of Night: A Confession (Fred Gardaphé) 

    Frank Lentricchia. The Edge of Night: A Confession (Matthew Titolo)

    Anna Monardo. The Courtyard of Dreams (Victoria Carlson)

    Anthony J. Parel. The Machiavellian Cosmos (Barbara J.

        Godorecci)

    Salvatore Salerno. Red November, Black November: Culture and

        Community in the Industrial Workers of the World (Laura

        Corradi)