An Italian American odyssey

Alternate Titles

• Life line
• Filo della vita

Description

"A blend of words and images, An Italian American Odyssey tells the story of the journey to America across seven generations of one Italian-American family." "Drawing on a remarkable collection of raw material - fragments of family letters, stories, diaries, and other writings, as well as photographs, collages, and assemblages of such humble objects as a pasta cutter, a pair of her grandmother's satin slippers, mismatched kitchen chairs, and faded biancheria, or dowry linens - B. Amore fashions a completely new encounter with American history, as a story retold and reimagined." "Illustrated in full color, the book is based on Amore's multimedia exhibition Life line - filo della vita, which traveled to great acclaim from the Ellis Island Museum to Boston, Rome, and Naples. Woven throughout the fully bilingual text are numerous interviews and historic photographs from the Ellis Island archives. Also included are original essays by noted scholars - Pellegrino D'Acierno, Fred Gardaphie, Jennifer Guglielmo, Edvige Giunta, Flavia Rando, Joseph Sciorra, and Robert Viscusi - who take Amore's art as a starting point for illuminating explorations of the immigrant experience, from the aesthetics of cultural memory and the persistence of ethnic identity to issues of gender, race, and generational change in Italian-American history and life."--Jacket.

Subjects

Genres

• Biography
• Exhibitions.

Other Editions

• An Italian American odyssey: Life line--filo della vita : through Ellis Island and beyondCenter for Migration Studies2006-01-01
• An Italian American odysseyCenter for Migration Studies2007-01-01