{"product_id":"italian-american-odyssey-life-linefilo-della-vita-through-ellis-island-and-beyond","title":"Italian American Odyssey: Life linefilo della vita: Through Ellis Island and Beyond","description":"\u003cp\u003eA moving blend of words and images, An Italian American Odyssey tells the story of the journey to America across seven generations of one ItalianAmerican family.Drawing on a remarkable collection of raw materialfragments of family letters, stories, diaries, and other writings, as well as photographs, collages, and assemblages of such humble objects as a pasta cutter, mismatched kitchen chairs, and faded biancheria, or dowry linensB. Amore fashions a new encounter with American history, as a story retold and reimagined.Lavishly illustrated in full color, this visual memoir is based on Amores multimedia exhibition Lifeline: filo della vita, which traveled with great acclaim from the Ellis Island Museum to Boston, Rome, and Naples. Woven throughout are numerous interviewsin both English and Italian, as are many other documentsand historic photographs from the Ellis Island archives. Also included are original essays by Pellegrino DAcierno, Fred Gardaph, Jennifer Guglielmo, Edvige Giunta, Flavia Rando, Joseph Sciorra, and Robert Viscusiwho take Amores artas a starting point for illuminating explorations of the immigrant experiencefrom the aesthetics of cultural memory and the persistence of ethnic identity to issues of gender, race, and generational change in ItalianAmerican history and life. The book includes an Italian translation of the full text.The books colorful, highly charged assemblages link two worlds, many generations, and one familys journey to pasts shared by so many millions of others. In its powerful words and images, the children and grandchildren of Americas immigrants can enter B. Amores worldand in the process, rediscover their own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Amore, B. \/ paperback","offer_id":47842066399477,"sku":"SONG157703046X","price":67.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/41G_GgiLinL.jpg?v=1773771122","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/italian-american-odyssey-life-linefilo-della-vita-through-ellis-island-and-beyond","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}