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Italian Folktales in America : The Verbal Art of an Immigrant Woman by Elizabeth Mathias and Richard Raspa (1988, Trade Paperback)
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Italian Folktales in America : The Verbal Art of an Immigrant Woman, Paperback by Mathias, Elizabeth; Raspa, Richard, ISBN 0814321224, ISBN-13 9780814321225, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Gathers fairy tales told by Clementina Todesco, an Italian immigrant, offers background information about her life in Italy and America, and explains how and when the tales were told
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Product Identifiers
PublisherWayne State University Press
ISBN-100814321224
ISBN-139780814321225
eBay Product ID (ePID)967376
Product Key Features
Book TitleItalian Folktales in America : the Verbal Art of an Immigrant Woman
Number of Pages346 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1988
TopicStorytelling, European / General, Folklore & Mythology, Women's Studies
IllustratorYes
GenrePerforming Arts, Social Science, Literary Collections
AuthorElizabeth Mathias, Richard Raspa
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight28.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN88-006598
Dewey Edition19
ReviewsThis study is not only an exemplary presentation of folk narrative, but also a sensitive and moving view of the way folklore exists in a real person's life. Mathias and Raspa make Clementina Todesco's narratives available to the rest of us, and, equally and perhaps more important, they help us better understand the nature and character of the immigrant experience in America., The tales are indicative of a great verbal artist . . . The introductory material is extensive and competent . . . A rare case study of a folk artist over a long period.
Dewey Decimal398.2/08951073
SynopsisIn 1941, while studying folklore at Wayne University with Professor Emelyn Gardner, Bruna Todesco collected from her mother, Clementina, the twenty-two märchen and legends presented in this book. Bruna, her mother, and her father, John, immigrated to America in 1930 from their native village of Faller in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Not just made up of the recorded texts, this book is also built on the reminiscences of that storyteller and some of her old neighbors in her birthplace, and is a record by two resourceful fieldworkers of what it takes to study memory culture. The result is a work that greatly enriches our understanding of who told (and tells) märchen to whom, why and how they are told, and, perhaps most important, under what conditions., In 1941, while studying folklore at Wayne University with Professor Emelyn Gardner, Bruna Todesco collected from her mother, Clementina, the twenty-two m'rchen and legends presented in this book. Bruna, her mother, and her father, John, immigrated to America in 1930 from their native village of Faller in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Not just made up of the recorded texts, this book is also built on the reminiscences of that storyteller and some of her old neighbors in her birthplace, and is a record by two resourceful fieldworkers of what it takes to study memory culture. The result is a work that greatly enriches our understanding of who told (and tells) m'rchen to whom, why and how they are told, and, perhaps most important, under what conditions., In 1941, while studying folklore at Wayne University with Professor Emelyn Gardner, Bruna Todesco collected from her mother, Clementina, the twenty-two märchen and legends presented in this book. Not just made up of the recorded texts, this book is also built on the reminiscences of that storyteller and some of her old neighbours.
LC Classification NumberGR111.I73M37 1988
