New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945 Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................ix
Introduction....................1
1. The Italian Languages in Italy and America....................21
2. Linguistic Boundaries in American History....................43
3. "He could not explain things the way I tell it": The Immigrant in Translation....................79
4. The World Turned Upside Down in Farfariello's Theater of Language....................114
5. The Identity Politics of Language: Italian Language Maintenance in New York City, 1920–40....................136
6. Language, Italian American Identity, and the Limits of Cultural Pluralism in the World War II Years....................158
Epilogue....................179
Notes....................185
Index....................237