
When I Am Italian
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Joanna Clapps Herman is the author of The Anarchist Bastard: Growing Up Italian in America and No Longer and Not Yet: Stories, both published by SUNY Press. She is also the coeditor (with Carol Bonomo Albright) of Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana and (with Lee Gutkind) Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: Creative Nonfiction Collects New Essays by Italian-American Writers. She lives in New York City.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Many Missing Stones What Does It Mean to Be Italian?
Quando sono italiana: When I Am Italian Waterbury, Connecticut, My Ancestral Village
Up the Farm
What Crawls around Inside Us
Housing Memory
Blue
What We Remember
Go Fish Food, Food, Food, and Hard Work
Creature Life
My Mother's Letter to Her Sister
Hard Work and Good Food
Sunday on the Farm
My Only Irish Aunt
Minestra Means Soup Move to America
Chiesta ca, or This One Here
After Eden
My First New York Story, 1965
200 Square Feet in the Village, or My Soluble Fortunes
My Friend Elizabeth
On Not Writing My Thesis
Italia, sempre italia
Part I. Southern Italy
The Stones of Dialect
Siamo arrivati
"That Winter Evening"
My Neapolitan Wedding
Part II. The Opposite of Southern Italy
After the Manner of Women The Grief Estate
Visiting Our Dead
My Father's Bones
Voglio bene
Somewhere My Bill
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