The Heart and the Island: A Critical Study of Sicilian by Chiara Mazzucchelli
By Chiara Mazzucchelli
In The center and the Island, Chiara Mazzucchelli explores the powerful bond among Sicilian American writers and the island of Sicily. Self-contained but attached to the mainland, geographically separated from but politically united to the remainder of Italy, Sicily occupies a distinct place. during the 20th century, the experience of a special sicilianità—or Sicilianness—has manifested itself in a corpus of texts that, even if subsumed less than the wider context of Italian literature, have uncommon themselves as examples of an exquisitely Sicilian literary event. Mazzucchelli argues parallel phenomenon—sicilianamericanità—has emerged within the usa. concentrating on the island’s geography, historical past, and tradition, she examines what percentage American authors of Sicilian descent derive suggestion from their ethnic milieu and lay out a recognizable set of Sicilian tradition markers of their works, thereby generating a literature that's surprisingly Sicilian American. Drawing on either Italian and Italian American scholarship, The middle and the Island is the 1st full-length research of Sicilian American literature, and it opens an area for brand spanking new interdisciplinary discussions on what it potential to be Italian on either side of the ocean.
Chiara Mazzucchelli is Assistant Professor of Italian reports on the college of vital Florida.
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