Research Catalog

Title

Italian American writers on New Jersey : an anthology of poetry and prose / edited by Jennifer Gillan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and Edvige Giunta.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gillan, Jennifer
• Gillan, Maria M.
• Giunta, Edvige

Description

xvi, 290 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This anthology gathers fiction, poetry, memoirs, oral histories, and journalistic pieces by some of the best writers to chronicle the Italian American experience in the Garden State. These works focus on ethnic identity and the distinctive culture of New Jersey, which has long been home to a large and vital Italian American community.

Subject

• American literature > New Jersey
• American literature > Italian American authors
• Italian Americans > Literary collections
• New Jersey > Literary collections

Genre/Form

• Literary collections
• Short stories
• Fiction
• Poetry
• Autobiographies
• Literature

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Jennifer Gillan ... [et al.] -- PART ONE : LOOKING BACK -- Combat zones / Louise DeSalvo -- Ocean city: unto the sons / Gay Talese -- Hoboken: three circles of light / Pietro di Donato -- Trenton / Grace Cavalieri -- Montclair memories: personal reflections and on oral interview / Marisa S. Trubiano -- Litania for my mother's hands ; Gardener / Edvidge Giunta -- A trip home / David Della Fera -- 1915: mill song / William Harry Harding -- Rebel girls / Jennifer Guglielmo -- We must rebel! / Maria Barbieri -- To the women workers / Maria Roda -- Paterson: 1913 / Josephine Stifano -- Time's end / Arturo Giovannitti -- Dye house strike, 1933 / Arturo Mazziotti -- Downtown Paterson / Tom DeBlasio Carroll -- The tangerine plymouth and the gilded cage / Rachel Guido de Vries -- Paterson, New Jersey / Carole Maso -- Public school no. 18, Paterson, New Jersey ; In the stacks at the Paterson Public Library ; Growing up Italian in Paterson, New Jersey / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- PART TWO : BLENDING IN -- Scents / Maria Laurino -- Daddy, we called you / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Third-generation Hawthorne / Jennifer Gillan -- Race riot / Tom Perrotta -- Dorissa / Daniela Gioseffi -- Strike one: seaside heights, New Jersey / Annie Rachele Lanzillotto -- Lyndhurst memories / Ed Smith -- Quench a plant's thirst ; St. Therese / Edvige Giunta -- Nevertheless, it moves / Susanne Antonetta -- PART THREE : CROSSING BRIDGES -- Hungry dog / Agnes Rossi -- Letter from New Jersey / Diane di Prima -- On the beaches of Wildwood, New Jersey ; June Wednesdays / Mary Ann Mannino -- Suburban backyards / June Avignone -- Jersey tomato wars / Mary Ann Castronovo Fusco -- I check other / Carla Guerriero -- Miracle baby: a boy named Phyllis / Frank DeCaro -- Class quartet / Janet Zandy -- Moving to Wood-Ridge / Bill Ervolino -- Pizza / Michele Linfante -- Snowball / Rosette Capotorto -- Passaic River crossing / Flavia Alaya -- Lincoln tunnel: Jersey bound / Salvatore Amico M. Buttaci -- Summer job / Frank Finale -- PART FOUR : CHANGING DIRECTION -- Liberating memory / Janet Zandy -- Circolo / Michele Linfante -- Bald / Loryn Lipari -- Today your name is Mary / Carole Maso -- Carlton Fredricks and my mother / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Greenwood Lake / Diane di Prima -- Elizabeth / Suzanne Antonetta.

ISBN

• 0813533163 (alk. paper)
• 0813533171 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003005943

OCLC

• 51905761
• SCSB-11928912

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library