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• Italoamericana This page intentionally left blank Edited by Francesco Durante • Italoamericana Th e Literature of the Great Migration, 1880– 1943 General Editor of the American Edition robert viscusi Translations Editor anthony julian tamburri Bibliographic Editor james j. periconi Fordham University Press | New York | 2014 Copyright © 2014 Fordham University Press Italoamericana: Th e Literature of the Great Migration, 1880– 1943 was previously published as Italomericana: Storia e letteratura degli italiani negli Stati Uniti 1880– 1943, edited by Francesco Durante. © 2005 Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., Milano. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means— electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other— except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the per sis tence or accuracy of URLs for external or third- party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Library of Congress Control Number: 2014931287 Printed in the United States of America 16 15 14 5 4 3 2 1 First edition Contents ix Preface xiii Ac know ledg ments xv Introduction to the American Edition part i. Chronicle of the Great Exodus 3 Introduction 17 carlo barsotti | To the Readers 20 ferdinando fontana | Shine? . . . Shine? 26 luigi roversi | For Humanity 31 rocco corresca | Th e Biography of a Bootblack 40 gaetano conte | Little Italy 51 gino carlo speranza | How It Feels to Represent a Problem 59 alberto pecorini | Th e Children of Emigrants 69 alberto tarchiani | Neither Foreigners nor Americans 74 al capone | Public Ser vice Is My Motto part ii. Colonial Chronicles 81 Introduction 111 luigi donato ventura | Peppino 131 fanny vanzi- mussini | Th e Destruction of San Francisco, April 18, 1906 138 adolfo rossi | Th e Five Points 146 giuseppe antonio cadicamo | To Giuseppe Giacosa 154 edoardo michelangeli | Two Stories 167 bernardino ciambelli | A Story, Sketches, and a Play 210 camillo cianfarra | An Emigrant’s Diary 231 thomas fragale | Two Poems 236 antonio calitri | Two Poems 251 angelo rosati | Th ree Poems 257 calicchiu pucciu | Th e Poor Woman 266 paolo pallavicini | Th e Little Madonna of the Italians 284 italo stanco | Bohemian and Detective 294 ernesto valentini | Brunori’s Fortune 303 eugenio camillo branchi | Hold Up! 315 dora colonna | Th e Two Girlfriends 328 caterina maria avella | Th e Flapper 341 severina magni | Seven Poems 346 antonio marinoni | Th e Hula Hula Flag 353 corrado altavilla | Th e Verdict part iii. On Stage (and Off ) 369 Introduction 395 francesco ricciardi | Th e Interrogation of Pulcinella 405 riccardo cordiferro | Four Poems and a Dramatic Play 445 eduardo migliaccio | Five Poems 467 tony ferrazzano | Th ree Poems 475 giovanni de rosalia | Nofrio on the Telephone 488 armando cennerazzo | Child Abductors, or, Th e Black Hand 499 gino calza | Two Poems 502 michele pane | Th e Americanized Calabrian 512 achille almerini | Dante’s Colony 516 pasquale seneca | Th e Pichinicco 522 vincenzo campora | Spaghetti House 524 alfredo borgianini | Two Poems 527 rodolfo valentino | Six Poems 531 silvio picchianti | Domestic Court 536 ario flamma | Leaves in the Whirlwind vi Contents part iv. Anarchists, Socialists, Fascists, and Antifascists 551 Introduction 605 giuseppe ciancabilla | Th e First of May 610 simplicio righi | Two Poems 613 luigi galleani | Methods of the Socialist Struggle 626 umberto postiglione | An Editorial and a Dramatic Play 643 ludovico m. caminita | A Letter and a Story 658 giuseppe bertelli | Six Poems 665 alberico molinari | Brief Discourses 675 arturo giovannitti | Four Poems 689 efrem bartoletti | Four Poems 697 vincenzo vacirca | Th e Fire 708 onorio ruotolo | In Union Square Park 715 agostino de biasi | Fascism in America 723 rosario ingargiola | Th e Light house 726 rosa zagnoni marinoni | To Mussolini, the Immortal 728 rosario di vita | Two Poems 731 umberto liberatore | Two Poems 736 armando borghi | Th e Failed Ambush 748 virgilia d’andrea | Remembering Michele Schirru 758 raffaele schiavina | What to Do? 764 carlo tresca | Two Articles 779 ezio taddei | Once Again Tresca part v. Integrated Apocalyptics 791 Introduction 801 lisi cecilia cipriani | A Story and a Poem 811 angelo patri | A Schoolmaster of the Great City 820 silvio villa | Viola 853 constantine Maria panunzio | In an Immigrant Community 867 emanuel carnevali | Th e Day of Summer 877 pascal d’angelo | Son of Italy 896 francesco ventresca | Incipit Vita Nova 909 louis forgione | Th e Torture of the Soul Contents vii 914 giuseppe cautela | Miracle 927 edward corsi | A Picture of 1907 939 James J. Periconi | Bibliography 987 Index viii Contents Preface Th is volume is dedicated to the period of the Great Emigration of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and therefore to the experience of the Little Italies, the Italian ghettoes of America that were its fi rst and most glaring outcome. Th is vol- ume follows upon my exploration, begun four years ago, of the fi rst literary traces left by the Italians in the United States1 and completes what might be considered its most important— and probably its least known— phase. Indeed, this period in- cludes the main body of the literary works springing directly from America’s Little Italies. Literary people in Italy systematically ignored— if not openly condemned— this production, calling it anachronistic, amateurish, and unbearably “wild.” But these works represent the site where the emigrants’ native culture was contami- nated by American culture, even if at a generally pop u lar or only partially cul- tured level. Th e result is an unforeseeably new universe. Th ese works also represent a moment of passage or, to put it in a better way, the necessary link between the experience of the fathers who came to America armed only with their cultural baggage from home, and that of their children who, merely a generation or two later, would recount their moving saga directly in En glish. Th e period examined here goes from 1880, the conventional date of the begin- ning of the transoceanic Great Emigration, to that traumatic and defi nitive divide, World War II. During the 1940s, the experience of the fi rst immigrant generation came to a close precisely because of the po liti cal alignments imposed by the war. By then this generation’s writers had given their best. Th eir contribution is the 1. Francesco Durante, Italoamericana: storia della letteratura degli italiani negli Stati Uniti (Milan: Mondadori, 2001). ix
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