“Tu vu’ fare l’italiano, ma sci nnate ‘n America, Argentina, Canada…”
The title of this article, besides recalling a popular Renato Carosone tune from the…
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Coming Home
Pulling in, we spot the “Calabria Mia” plaque fixed on the brick façade of…
Building the Canada-Italy Bridge
In December 2001, Italy’s Minister of Foreign Trade, Adolfo Urso, headed a business…
Italian Immigration and Its Continuing Influence on the Structure and Culture of North American Society
In the fall of 1999, I began offering a course in North American Italian literature.…
Mainstream Media and the Godfather Legacy
In 1972, Francis Ford Coppola’s controversial screen adaptation of Mario…
Politics and the Book Fair
“The real risk for writers is to be relegated to the forgotten, censored. How can…
Italian Americans and Italian American Cultural Power
Shortly after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Toni Morrison said that the…