Class, Reading, and Discussion Schedule

 

WEEK I

October 27:        Leaving the Mezzogiorno  

Stanislao Pugliese, “The Ironies of Italian American History” Power Point

“A pena do pana,” The Price of Bread, dir. Lucia Grillo 2004, 18 minutes

https://www.calabrisellafilms.com/shop-films/thecostofbreadstreaming-dt3n4

www.calabrisellafilms.com

 

October 28    Encountering the New World as Tragedia

Pietro Di Donato, Christ in Concrete (1939) pp. 3-22.

www.pietrodidonato.com

Film: Pietro Di Donato, lo scrittore muratore

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=238822827802534

 

October 29:   Encountering the New World as Commedia

Mario Puzo, The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965) pp. 266-68; 277-283

Guest Speaker: Sam Patti, President, Foundation for Italian Diaspora Studies

 

WEEK II

November 3: Italian American Women

Helen Barolini, excerpt from Umbertina, (1979) Part One, Chapters 4-5, pp. 58-72.

Lucia Grillo interviews Helen Barolini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77a8rU8qG7M

 

November 4:    Italian American Identity I

William J. Connell, “A New History for a New Millennium,” from RHIA pp. 1-13.

 

November 5:   Italian American Identity II

Fred Gardaphé, “Breaking and Entering: An Italian American’s Literary Odyssey”

Tony DeNonno, Director, Part of Your Loving, 1977, 10 minutes

https://hofstra.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Part+of+your+loving/1_yv9xwwae

 

WEEK III

November 10:  Power and Freedom

Pugliese, “Fascism and Antifascism in Italian America,” RHIA

Frank Sinatra, “The House I Live In” Director Mervyn LeRoy, 1946. (10 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovwHkb1wEfU

 

November 11:  Race

Kym Ragusa, The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging (excerpt)

Film screening Fuori/Outside Kym Ragusa, director, (13 minutes)

https://ezproxy.hofstra.edu/login?url=https://video.alexanderstreet.com/p/jYMYo6gr5

 

November 12:  Creating the Calabrian Self in America

Joseph Luzzi, “The Witch of Naples” from My Two Italies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh2D5Sq4ZMk (start at 3:30-28:40)

 

WEEK IV

November 17: Gender   

Louise DeSalvo, “A Portrait of the Puttana as a Woman in Midlife” from Vertigo.

De Salvo, “Personal Effects” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ah-Ebzz6U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUNYNTIzSKs (Pugliese 42’-48’; Romanello 48’-59’)

Annie Lanzillotto, “Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire with Bells and Tears”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNT8w0cUM2w (2 minutes)

 

November 18 Recent Immigration

Ruberto and Sciorra, “Rebooting Italian America,” Intro, New Italian Migrations to the United States, vol. 2.

Michele Petruzziello photos: https://www.petruzziellomichele.com/client-albums

Tamorriatta, Alessandra Belloni/John LaBarbera I Giullari di Piazza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjtS5gJAiK0

La storia che si ripete? Letter to a son. Pier Luigi Celli, past Direttore generale della RAI, President LUISS University, Rome; “Figlio mio, lascia questo paese” La Repubblica  30 Novembre 2009

https://liberapiemonte.it/2009/12/01/figlio-mio-lascia-questo-paese/

Mattia Celli, Master’s degree, mechanical engineering, Università di Roma, La Sapienza 110/lode

First job: Ferrari; Today: Consultant and Partner, Bain & Co, Rome

https://www.bain.com/our-team/mattia-celli/

 

November 19   The Future of Our Past

Turismo delle Radici, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto, “Carissima Grandma Rose” in Whaddyacall the Wind?

Gay Talese, “Those who love you, make you cry . . .” from Unto the Sons (pp. 627-629).

Stanislao Pugliese, “The Future of Our Past,” from RHIA.

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