Author: Joseph Guerin FucillaPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J : American Association of Teachers of Italian
ISBN:
Category : Italian language
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Teaching of Italian in the United States
Author: Joseph Guerin FucillaPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J : American Association of Teachers of Italian
ISBN:
Category : Italian language
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The teaching of Italian in the United States
Author: Joseph Guerin FucillaThe Teaching of Italian in the United States
Author: Edoardo A. LèbanoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italian language
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Teaching of Italian in the United States
Author: Bruno RoselliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italian language
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Study of Italian in the United States
Author: Mario Emilio CosenzaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italian language
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Italian Language Maintenance Efforts in the United States and the Teacher of Italian in American High Schools and Colleges
Author: Joshua A. FishmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italian language
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
A strong influence on the nature of Italian instruction today in the United States is the fact that Italo-Americans show less organized interest in their language than do other ethnic groups, as evidenced by comparing newspaper publications in different mother tongues, radio language programs, and language maintenance associations where, in each case, other languages outdistance proportionately the same activities in Italian. More students and teachers of Italian than those of other major commonly taught languages are "appropriate ethnics" (one whose parent(s) or grandparent(s) are or were native speakers of the language under consideration), who associate the language with people, food, and daily life rather than with more elevated linguistic or literary concepts. The future of Italian seems to be only greater de-ethnization, less familiarity on the part of the individual with his regional Italian, and fewer students of the language as their "Italianness" recedes further into the background because of a higher socio-economic level and a more urban-American way of life. This speech was delivered at the annual conference of the American Association of Teachers of Italian, Chicago, December 27-29, 1965.
Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
Author: Edvige GiuntaPublisher: Modern Language Association of America
ISBN: 9781603290661
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Italian American studies has long been in conversation with American culture at large and is increasingly present in American universities and colleges. Yet once-celebrated works, such as Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete, have slipped from the public consciousness, and many scholars fear that representations of Italian Americans in popular culture, as in The Godfather films and the television series The Sopranos, have obscured genuine historical inquiry and understanding. This volume aims to foster a deeper and more complex appreciation for the importance of Italian American texts in the study of American culture.The editors open the volume by outlining the history of Italians in the United States and exploring the potential of literature and the arts to enable the recovery of a forgotten, even repressed, historical past. Over thirty scholars and teachers then present innovative ways of teaching Italian American texts and integrating them with other texts in courses ranging from American literature and history to multiethnic and women's studies. Contributors discuss Italian American fiction, poetry, memoir, oral history, and theater and performance. A section on film and television provides an overview of popular as well as lesser-known works and interrogates the stereotyped portrayals of Italian Americans. Other contributors offer historical and interdisciplinary approaches to Italian American texts that revolve around themes of race and gender politics, work and social class, and historical intersections. The volume concludes with a review of anthologies that can be used in teaching Italian American studies.
Sons of Italy
Author: Antonio ManganoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church work with immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Italian Community and Its Language in the United States
Author: Francesco CordascoPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A New Language, A New World
Author: Nancy C. CarnevalePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252090772
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
An examination of Italian immigrants and their children in the early twentieth century, A New Language, A New World is the first full-length historical case study of one immigrant group's experience with language in America. Incorporating the interdisciplinary literature on language within a historical framework, Nancy C. Carnevale illustrates the complexity of the topic of language in American immigrant life. By looking at language from the perspectives of both immigrants and the dominant culture as well as their interaction, this book reveals the role of language in the formation of ethnic identity and the often coercive context within which immigrants must negotiate this process.