Voices in Italian Americana

a literary and cultural review


Volume 7         Spring 1996        Number 1


Table of Contents

 

Guest Spot

    Daniela Gioseffi

        Introduction

    Robert Bly

    Daniela Gioseffi

        Breathing Light & Night into Song   

 

Interviews

    Francesca Roccaforte

        An Interview with Angela Alioto

        An Interview with Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum

 

Essays

    Brunella Bigi

        Negotiating the Word:
        Liminal Discourse and National Literature

    Annette Wheeler Cafarelli

No Butter on Our Bread
Anti-Intellectual Stereotyping of Italian Americans

    Sandra Saccucci

        Sibling Voices: la Via Vecchia e la Via Nuova—the Old
        and New Worlds in Italian-Canadian Writing

    Frank P. Tomasulo

        Italian Americans in the Hollywood Cinema:
        Filmmakers, Characters, Audiences

    Vincent Zangrillo

        Una testa dura—On Being Gregory Corso and Being Italian

 

Non-Fiction

    Rosette Capotorto

        In Praise of Attitude

    Anthony Valerio

        Water for Toni Morrison

 

Fiction

    Joshua King

         The British Fleet in Sicilian Waters

    Catherine Vignale

        The Handbag’s Tale

    Chuck Wachtel

        Here

    Carole R. Zucco

        The Fig Tree

 

Poetry

    Mary Jo Bona

 

    Catherine Cerrone

 

    Joseph M. Ditta

 

    George Guida

 

    Maria Mazziotti Gillan

 

    John C. McLucas

 

    C. Natale Peditto

 

    Peter Putnam

 

    Geraldine Salvatorelli

 

 

Italian Writing in North America

    Francesca Parmeggiani

        Oltre; Scelta di tempi sbagliati

    Ruggero Stefanini

        Enee; Aree Laterali

       

Readings

    John Delano Payne

        My Friend, Arturo

 

1995 Italian American Cultural Foundation

Essay Contest Winners

    Constance M. Milicia

        

    Brenda Hallsman

 

    Daniel J. Weber

 

    Karen DeFranco

 

    Lorella A. Fini

 

    Angela Ann Donsante

        

 

Review Essays

    Mary Jo Bona

        Coming Home—Through the Front Door:

        Fred Gardaphé’s Literary Odyssey

    Monica Epstein

        Felix Stefanile. The Dance at Saint Gabriel’s.

    Daniela Gioseffi

        Reading Alfredo de Palchi’s poetry:
        The Scorpion’s Dark Dance

    John T. Kirby

        Ancient Semiotics and Modern Scholarship: Giovanni
        Manetti’s Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity

 

Reviews

    Henry Barbera. Medieval Sicily: The First Absolute State.

       (Stephen Pierson)

    Valentine J. Belfiglio. Italian Experience in Texas: A Closer
        Look.
(Phylis Cancilla Martinelli)

    Paul M. Buhle. A Dreamer’s Paradise Lost: Louis C. Fraina/
        Lewis Corey (1892–1953) and the Decline of Radicalism
        in the United States.
(Fred L. Gardaphé)

    Marina LaPalma. Persistence. (Carmela Delia Lanza)

    Vittoria repetto. Head for the Van Wyck.
        (Carmela Delia Lanza)

    Martin Scorsese, director. Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi,  

        screenwriters. Casino. (Cristina Degli-Esposti)

    Alexander Stille. Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death
        of the First Italian Republic
; and, Antonio Nicaso and Lee   

        Lamothe. Global Mafia: The New World Order of Organized
        Crime.
(M. Alfano)

    Robert Viscusi. Astoria. (Eugene Mirabelli)