A moving 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, mismatched kitchen chairs, and faded biancheria, or dowry linens--B. Amore fashions a new encounter with American history, as a story retold and ...
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A moving 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, mismatched kitchen chairs, and faded biancheria, or dowry linens--B. Amore fashions a new encounter with American history, as a story retold and reimagined. Lavishly illustrated in full color, this visual memoir is based on Amore's multimedia exhibition Lifeline: filo della vita, which traveled with great acclaim from the Ellis Island Museum to Boston, Rome, and Naples. Woven throughout are numerous interviews--in both English and Italian, as are many other documents--and historic photographs from the Ellis Island archives. Also included are original essays by Pellegrino D'Acierno, Fred Gardaph???, 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. The book includes an Italian translation of the full text. The book's colorful, highly charged assemblages link two worlds, many generations, and one family's journey to pasts shared by so many millions of others. In its powerful words and images, the children and grandchildren of America's immigrants can enter B. Amore's world--and in the process, rediscover their own.
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Publisher:
Center for Migration Studies of New York
Published:
2006
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English
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Very Good. Book. Oblong 8vo. Oblong softcover with an "opened-only-a-few-times" look & feel. A dual-language (English and Italian) softcover. A clean and unmarked copy. Heavily-illustrated. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999.
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Very Good. 9.9 x 7.9 x 1. Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. Center for Migration Studies, 2006. Signed by Author on Half-Title page with Greeting, with date. 432 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy! Light general wear. Includes hand written letter by author to previous owner. Size: 9.9 x 7.9 x 1. Signed Psychology 6576L.
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2006
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Good+ (Wraps are lightly edgeworn and toned; pages are lightly toned at the edges; textblock edges are lightly foxed; binding is solid. ) Color photo-illustrated wraps with blue and white lettering; xix, 412 pp.; richly illustrated. Text in English and Italian. Signed and inscribed by the author to the previous owner. "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."--WorldCat.
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2006
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illus. Near Fine/Near Fine. 412pp. Signed by the author: Inscribed "For...Hope you enjoy this journey through your heritage" NO INTERNATIONAL OR PRIORITY.
