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Italian Americans in literature --- Italian Americans in motion pictures

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Mario Puzo's The Godfather is an American pop phenomenon whose driving force is reflected not only in book sales and cable television movie marathons but also in such related works as the hit television series The Sopranos. In The Godfather and American Culture, Chris Messenger offers an important and comprehensive study of this classic work of popular fiction and its hold on the American imagination. As Messenger shows, the Corleones have indeed become "our gang," and we see our family business in America reflected in them. Examining The Godfather and its many incarnations within a variety of texts and contexts, Messenger also addresses Puzo's inconsistent affiliation with his Italian heritage, his denial of the multiethnic literary subject, and his decades-long struggle for respect as a writer in contemporary America. The study ultimately offers a way of looking at the much-maligned genre of popular or bestselling fiction itself. By placing both the novel and films within a number of revealing critical situations, Messenger addresses the continuing problem of how we talk about elite and popular fiction in America—and what we mean when we take sides.

Mafia in literature. --- Families in literature. --- Criminals in literature. --- Italian Americans in literature. --- Corleone family (Fictitious characters) --- Family in literature --- Puzo, Mario, --- Puzo, Mario --- Italian Americans in literature --- Criminals in literature --- Mafia in literature

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Winner of the 2006 Pietro Di Donato and John Fante Literary Award from The Grand Lodge of the Sons of Italy, New York StateRobert Viscusi takes a comprehensive look at Italian American writing by exploring the connections between language and culture in Italian American experience and major literary texts. Italian immigrants, Viscusi argues, considered even their English to be a dialect of Italian, and therefore attempted to create an American English fully reflective of their historical, social, and cultural positions. This approach allows us to see Italian American purposes as profoundly situated in relation not only to American language and culture but also to Italian nationalist narratives in literary history as well as linguistic practice. Viscusi also situates Italian American writing within the "eccentric design" of American literature, and uses a multidisciplinary approach to read not only novels and poems, but also houses, maps, processions, videos, and other artifacts as texts.

Italian Americans in literature. --- Italian Americans --- American literature --- Intellectual life. --- Italian influences. --- Italian American authors --- History and criticism.

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American fiction --- Gangster films --- Gangsters in literature --- Italian Americans in literature --- Masculinity in literature --- History and criticism

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Narration (Rhetoric) --- Italian Americans in literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- DeRosa, Tina --- Maso, Carole --- Caponegro, Mary --- D'Angelo, Pascal --- Cavalleri, Rosa --- Panunzio, Constantine