Remembering Italian America: Memory, Migration, Identity

by Laurie Buonanno and Michael Buonanno

Book Overview

Remembering Italian America: Memory, Migration, Identity examines the life of Italians in the United States and the role of migration and collective memory in the history of the construction of Italian American identity.

Employing the concept of communicative memory, the authors explain the processes that gave shape to Italian identity in America and the ways in which a symbolic identity became concretized in Italian American oral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367514699
• ISBN13: 9780367514693
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"