Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Changing Culture
1. A Hard Rome's A-Gonna Fall: Roman Sonnets, Sicilian Sulfur, and American Ballads
2. Changing Culture: European Immigrants and New York City Literature, 1870-1940
3. "Our brother Dante": Dantesque Reappropriations in Italian America
Part II: Transitional Modes of Italian American Letters
4. All the Words That Are (Not) Fit to Print: Notes on the "Illiterature" of the Italian Emigration
5. Questioning the Traditionalism of Italian American Literature
6. Kings of Harlem: Garibaldi Lapolla and the "Grand" Gennaro
7. I Am(s): Strategies of Acceptance and Denial
8. Reading Robert Viscusi
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Martino Marazzi is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Milan in Italy. His many books include Voices of Italian America: A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology.