Research Catalog

Title

An Italian American odyssey : Life line--filo della vita : through Ellis Island and beyond / by B. Amore ; translation by Franco Bagnolini.

Author

Amore, B.

Publication

New York : Center for Migration Studies, 2006.

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Description

xix, 412 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 22 x 27 cm.

Summary

• "A blend of words and images, An Italian American Odyssey tells the story of the journey to America across seven generations of one Italian-American family." "Drawing on a remarkable collection of raw material - fragments of family letters, stories, diaries, and other writings, as well as photographs, collages, and assemblages of such humble objects as a pasta cutter, a pair of her grandmother's satin slippers, mismatched kitchen chairs, and faded biancheria, or dowry linens - B. Amore fashions a completely new encounter with American history, as a story retold and reimagined."
• "Illustrated in full color, the book is based on Amore's multimedia exhibition Life line - filo della vita, which traveled to great acclaim from the Ellis Island Museum to Boston, Rome, and Naples. Woven throughout the fully bilingual text are numerous interviews and historic photographs from the Ellis Island archives.
• Also included are original essays by noted scholars - Pellegrino D'Acierno, Fred Gardaphie, Jennifer Guglielmo, Edvige Giunta, Flavia Rando, Joseph Sciorra, and Robert Viscusi - who take Amore's art as a starting point for illuminating explorations of the immigrant experience, from the aesthetics of cultural memory and the persistence of ethnic identity to issues of gender, race, and generational change in Italian-American history and life."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

• Life line
• Filo della vita

Subject

• Amore, B. > Family > Exhibitions
• Ellis Island Immigration Museum > Exhibitions
• Italian American families > Exhibitions
• Italian Americans > Exhibitions
• Italian Americans > Social life and customs > Exhibitions
• Immigrants > United States > Exhibitions
• United States > Social life and customs > Exhibitions
• United States > Ethnic relations > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• Companion book to an exhibit and installation entitled Lifeline which opened on Nov. 4, 2000 at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York, N.Y.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-402) and index.

Language (note)

• Text in English and Italian.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Guide to the exhibition and book -- Following the thread -- Guide to the main characters in An Italian American odyssey -- Introduction -- Dreams -- The first generation -- Becoming American -- La famiglia and work -- Return to the roots -- Today and tomorrow -- Commentary on Life line -- Supplement -- The donors' arch -- Italian translation.

ISBN

• 1577030451 (alk. paper)
• 9781577030454 (alk. paper)
• 157703046X (soft cover)
• 9781577030461 (soft cover)

LCCN

^^2006008184

OCLC

65207022

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library