Voices in Italian Americana

a literary and cultural review

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Volume 6 Fall 1995 Number 2

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Table of Contents

Guest Spot

Daniela Gioseffi

Introduction

Miguel Algarin

Interview

Michelle Alfano

Saints and the Hereafter: An Interview with Nino Ricci

Essays

Romana Capek-Habekovic

Texts within the text: Hermeneutics of the “Fluid” Novel
Benedetta in Guysterland by Giose Rimanelli for the
Jabberwocky Reader

Judith N. DeSena

Italian/American Women and Community Politics

Fiction

Joanna Clapps Herman

As Morning Breaks

Paola Corso

Zumo Massismo’s Green Felt Hat

Dan Fante

Chump Change

Julia Volpelletto Nakamura

Bonding Forged by Death

Camille Taccarello-Christie

Journal of Testimony

Poetry

John Tagliabue

Italian Writing in the North America

Stelio Cro

Diseredati; Al foro romano

Altalena; Filmetti

John C. McLucas

Discoteca “dai compagni”

Dottrina, stato, e santità

Readings

Stephen Pierson

A New, or Old World, Garden? A Deconstructive

Interpretation of Gianna Patriarca’s “The Garden”

Review Essays

John T. Kirby

Italian/American Classical Scholarship:
Gian Biagio Conte’s Latin Literature: A History

Sante Matteo

Pluralism or Unity: Are We Barking Up the Right Tree?

Angelo Mazzocco

Of Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever

Maria Pramaggiore

Ethnic Motions: Gender, Generation, and Geography
in Crossing Ocean Parkway

Reviews

Mary Jo Bona, ed. The Voices We Carry: Recent Italian/
American Women’s Fiction. (Edvige Giunta)

Mary Bush. Drowning. (George Guida)

Rita Ciresi. Mother Rocket: Stories. (Joshua Fausty)

Gabriella De Ferrari. Gringa Latina: A Woman of
Two Worlds. (Victoria Carlson)

Antonio Gramsci. The Southern Question.

(Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum)

Dacia Maraini. Voci. (Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum)

Louise Napolitano. An American Story: Pietro di Donato’s
“Christ in Concrete.” Matthew Diomede. Pietro di Donato,
the Master Builder. (Fred L. Gardaphe)

Nancy Savoca. Household Saints. (Edvige Giunta)

Paolo Volponi. Last Act in Urbino. (Paul Vespoli)