A new language, a new world : Italian immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945 /

Carnevale, Nancy C., 1962-

A new language, a new world : Italian immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945 / Nancy C. Carnevale. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource. - Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Italian languages in Italy and America -- Linguistic boundaries in American history -- "He could not explain things the way I tell it" : the immigrant in translation -- The world turned upside down in Farfariello's theater of language -- The identity politics of language : Italian language maintenance in New York City, 1920-40 -- Language, Italian American identity, and the limits of cultural pluralism in the World War II years.



9780252090776 9781283043977

2019718389


Italian Americans--Social conditions--19th century.
Italian Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
Italian Americans--Languages.
Italian Americans--Ethnic identity.
Immigrants--Social conditions--United States--19th century.
Immigrants--Social conditions--United States--20th century.
Immigrants--Language.--United States
Sociolinguistics--History.--United States


Electronic Books.

E184 / .N495 2009