Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880–1943, edited by Francesco Durante (Fordham University Press, 2014), brings to an English-speaking audience a definitive collection of writings by Italian immigrants in the United States.

Containing work originally published in Italian, this groundbreaking anthology presents long-inaccessible writing that embodies a literary canon for Italian-American culture — poetry, drama, journalism, political advocacy, history, memoir, biography, and story — the greater part of which has never before been translated. 

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