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Informationen zum Autor Ilaria Serra is associate professor of Italian and comparative studies at Florida Atlantic University. Her research spans from Italian cinema and literature to the history of Italian immigration to the United States. She is the author of Immagini di un immaginario: L'emigrazione italiana negli Stati Uniti fra i due secoli: 1890- 1925 (1997); The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies (2007); and The Imagined Immigrant: Images of Italian Emigration to the United States between 1890 and 1924 (2009). Klappentext In this innovative portrait of the Italian-American experience, Serra offers the first comprehensive study of a largely ignored legacy-the autobiographies written by immigrants. Moving between history and literature, Serra presents each as the imaginative record of a self in the making and the collective story of the journey to selfhood that is the heart of the immigrant experience. Zusammenfassung Offers the study of a largely ignored legacy. Scouring archives! discovering diaries! and memoirs in private houses and forgotten drawers! this title recovers the voices of the generation - bootblacks and poets! film directors and farmers! miners! anarchists! and seamstresses - compelled to tell their stories.
