This anthology, hailed as a significant contribution to American ethnic studies, features the short stories, poems, and plays of more than thirty Italian American artists. Drawing on their individual and collective backgrounds and experience, these writers convey another vision of American fife. A section of critical essays by established scholars in the field, with topics ranging from specific works and authors to broad literary movements and film studies, analyzes the Italian American phenomenon and the role of ethnicity in literature. The extensive bibliography treats creative works,...

Cultural Writing. The three essays in this volume originate from a symposium held at Florida Atlantic University, dedicated to the integration of the Advanced Placement exam within the teaching of Italian language and culture. Special emphasis was placed upon Italian-American culture, as shown in the essays included in INTRODUCING ITALIAN AMERICANA: "From the Old Country to the Old Neighborhood: Creating Italian American Literature," by Fred Gardaphe, State University of New York at Stony Brook; "From Italy to the New World: Italian Writers in the United States," by Paolo A Giordano,...

"Mesmerizing...an exquisite rendering of what one might call feelings at the subatomic level." -The New York Times
A prime number is a lonely thing. It can only be divided by itself or by one, and it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia are both "primes"-misfits haunted by early tragedies. When the two meet as teenagers, they recognize in each other a kindred, damaged spirit. Years later, a chance encounter reunites them and forces a lifetime of concealed emotion to the surface. But can two prime numbers ever find a way to be together? A brilliantly conceived and...

In recent years it has become increasingly clear that the dynamics of cities can be best captured by looking at them as complex systems governed by many degrees of freedom, interacting on different space and time scales in a non-linear fashion. The evolution of cities is shaped by internal factors, e. g. decisions taken by ins- tutions and individuals, external causes (international economic context) and by social development. The underlying processes can be slow or fast, acting locally or globally. At a different level, both European cities and megacities are magnets for immigrants (e. g....

Alice ist sieben Jahre alt und hasst den Skikurs, zu dem ihr Vater sie gezwungen hat. Sie macht sich im Sessellift in die Hose. Sie schämt sich und möchte alleine ins Tal fahren. Doch Alice landet außerhalb der Piste, bricht sich ein Bein und kann sich nicht mehr bewegen. Mattia hingegen schämt sich vor seinen Altersgenossen für seine behinderte Schwester. Als ein Klassenkamerad beide einlädt, beschließt Mattia, seine Schwester alleine im Park warten zu lassen.

Der Roman beschreibt die Kindheit und Jugend von Alice und Mattia, die körperlich und seelisch von dramatischen Ereignissen...