The Anarchist Bastard by Joanna Clapps Herman
"I was born in 1944, but raised in the twelfth century." With that, Joanna Clapps Herman neatly describes the two worlds she inhabited while growing up as the child of Italian American immigrants in Waterbury, Connecticut, a place embedded with values closer to Homer's Greece than to Anglo-American New England, where the ethic of hospitality was and still is more Middle Eastern and North African than Anglo-European, and where the pageantry and ritual were more pagan Mediterranean than Western Christian. It was also a place where a stuffed monkey wearing a fedora sat and continues to sit on her grandmother's piano, and a place where, when the donkey got stubborn and wouldn't plow the field, her grandfather bit the animal in a fury. In essays filled with wry humor and affectionate yet probing insights, Herman maps and makes palpable the very particular details of this culture-its pride and its shame, its profound loyalty and its Byzantine betrayals.-
The Guitar and the New World
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Italian/American Fantastika
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Italian Americans on the Page
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Paper Boats
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Rebel Girl and the Godfather
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A Semiotic of Ethnicity
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Sense of Origins
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Intersecting Diasporas
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Through the Periscope
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Beyond Memory
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The Transatlantic Gaze
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The Music of the Inferno
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Leaving Little Italy
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Italian Trans Geographies
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Hopelessly Alien
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By the Breath of Their Mouths
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Religious Festive Practices in Boston's North End
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The Godfather and Sicily
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The Autobiography of a Language
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From Paesani to White Ethnics
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L Is for Lion
Joanna Clapps Herman teaches creative writing in the MAW program at Manhattanville College and at the Center for Worker Education, a division of City College of New York. She is the coeditor (with Carol Bonomo Albright) of Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana and (with Lee Gutkind) of Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: Creative Nonfiction Collects New Essays by Italian-American Writers. She lives in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781438436326 |
| ISBN 10 | 1438436327 |
| Title | The Anarchist Bastard |
| Author | Joanna Clapps Herman |
| Series | Suny Series In Italian American Culture |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2013-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 258 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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