Prof. Fabio Girelli-Carasi

FALL 2020
ENGLISH 2003
ITALIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND FILM

Prof. Fabio Girelli-Carasi
Boylan 4304

Office hours:
TUE and THU 2.30-3.30
Skype ID FGCBROOKLYNCOLLEGE

COURSE EMAIL ADDRESS
english2003.fall20@oggi-domani.com

GOOGLE MEETS
 https://hangouts.google.com/call/RUrUz4GaosvAHv-6WQO4ACEE

BLOG
https://english2003-fall2020.blogspot.com/

SYLLABUS

 REQUIRED BOOKS   
EBOOKS ARE OK

Pascal D'Angelo
SON OF ITALY
Paperback: 180 pages
Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc. (August 14, 2003)
ISBN-13: 978-1550710984

Pietro Di Donato
CHRIST IN CONCRETE
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: NAL Trade (September 7, 2004)
ISBN: 0-451-21421-8
ISBN-13: 978-0451214218


BUY THIS EDITION

  DO NOT BUY THIS EDITION 

 

Mario Puzo
THE GODFATHER
CAREFUL: THERE ARE SEVERAL EDITIONS. CHOOSE THIS VERSION
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: NAL Trade (March 1, 2002)
ISBN-13: 978-0-451-16771-2

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK UNTIL I TELL YOU
AVAILABLE ONLY ONLINE
Robert Tinnell (Author) Alex Saviuk, Ed Piskor (Illustrators)
FEAST OF THE SEVEN FISHES: The Collected Comic Strip and Italian Holiday Cookbook
Publisher: Allegheny Image Factory (Nov 1, 2005)
ISBN-10: 0976928809

 FILMS

The Black Hand (online)
The Skyscrapers of New York (online)
The Italian (online)
L'emigrante
Sacco & Vanzetti
Marty
Moonstruck
Give Us This Day
The Godfather Part 1
True Love

LECTURES and ASSIGNMENTS

000 INTRODUCTION ON WRITING

01. LECTURE Aug.27 Introduction. Tribes and stereotypes

02. LECTURE SEPT 1  ZOOM MEETING RECORDING
Optional: online meeting on the history of Italian language
 

03. LECTURE SEPT 3 (I added materials about EUGENICS. Thank you for suggesting the topic.)

04. SEPT 8 zoom class discussion

05. LECTURE SEPT 10  ZOOM INFO

06. LECTURE SEPT 15 OUTLINE

07. LECTURE SEPT 17

08. LECTURE SEPT 24

09. LECTURE OCTOBER 1

10. LECTURE OCT 6

11. LECTURE OCTOBER 8

12. LECTURE OCTOBER 15

13. LECTURE OCTOBER 22

14. LECTURE OCTOBER 29

15. LECTURE NOVEMBER 5

16. LECTURE NOVEMBER 12

17. LECTURE NOVEMBER 19

18. LECTURE DECEMBER 10

19. WORKSHEET FOR THE FINAL

ASSIGNMENTS

01. ASSIGNMENT DUE THU SEPT 3

02. ASSIGNMENT DUE TUE SEPT 8

03. ASSIGNMENTS DUE THU SEPT 10

04. ASSIGNMENT DUE TUE SEPT 15

05. ASSIGNMENT DUE THU SEPT 17

06. ASSIGNMENT DUE THU SEPT 24

07. ASSIGNMENT DUE THU OCT 1

08. ASSIGNMENT DUE TUE OCT 6

09. ASSIGNMENT DUE THU OCT 8

10. ASSIGNMENT DUE THU OCT 15

11. ASSIGNMENT DUE OCT 22

12. ASSIGNMENT DUE OCT 29

13. ASSIGNMENT DUE NOV 12

14. ASSIGNMENT DUE NOV 17

15. ASSIGNMENT DUE NOV 19

16. ASSIGNMENT DUE NOV 24

 

 

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS

GOOD NOTE-TAKING
1. while reading a book (raw)
2. while reading (notebook, raw)
3. while reading Godfather (raw)
4. typed with links (Son of Italy)
5. typed by chapter (Godfather)
6. typed 'impressions' (Christ in Concrete)
7. typed summary-commenst' (Moonstruck)
8. one more from a student (Son)

PLAYLIST: videos, documentaries, films etc. related to the course content.

PLAYLIST: video lectures
Video lectures I prepared for previous classes.

Video ANIMATED HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
https://youtu.be/WaxeyHAOTWA 

Video MEDIEVAL ITALIAN TOWNS
 https://youtu.be/rlDqSRJv0-Y

CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES - inventory

 
 

EXTRA REPOSITORY

 

 

 


 


 

Other Course Materials

Excerpts or Chapters
 

  • Patrizia Salvetti (translated by Fabio Girelli - Carasi)
    ROPE AND SOAP: Lynchings of Italians in the United States
    Available free online by permission of the author and translator for this course only.

  • Giuseppe Prezzolini (translated by Fabio Girelli - Carasi)
    The Transplanted
    Available free online by permission of the author and translator for this course only.

  • Anthony Tamburri
    A Semiotic of Ethnicity
    Available free online by permission of the author for this course only.

 

 

COURSE MATERIALS

OTHER INTERESTING MATERIALS (contemporary)

THE GREAT MIGRATION
African Americans experienced a huge mass migration from the South to the North particularly before and after WWII. Given the enormous differences between North and South at that time, this was a true migration with many of the same features of migrations from abroad.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson, talks about her book, now in paperback, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, as listeners share their families' stories of moving away from the Jim Crow south.

http://www.wnyc.org/story/171309-great-migration/

CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS
From the NYTIMES Sept.2014
Personal stories about growing up as immigrants in New York City today.

IMMIGRANT DEATHS ON CONSTRUCTION SITES (NYTIMES)

The Constitution does not guarantee the right of voting

Course Homepage
google meets

https://brooklyncollege.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqc-2qqj0rHNIquPLZjN5XB8jUkYvARu_w