When I Am Italian

by Joanna Clapps Herman

Book Overview

"My ancestral Italian village in America was in Waterbury Connecticut." In this sentence, Joanna Clapps Herman raises the central question of this book: To what extent can a person born outside of Italy be considered Italian? The granddaughter of Italian immigrants who arrived in the United States in the early 1900s, Herman takes a complicated and nuanced look at the question of to whom and to which culture she ultimately belongs. Sometimes the Italian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143847718X
• ISBN13: 9781438477183
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"