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- English
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About this book
The "panoramic, descriptive, and solidly crafted" historical novel of immigration, womanhood, and the feminist ideals of self-reliance and self-confidence (
Publishers Weekly).
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This sweeping, multi-generational novel begins in southern Italy's Calabria region in the late 1800s, as Umbertinaāthe wife of a simple farmerāpersuades her husband to emigrate to the United States to pursue its promise of hope and freedom for their three children.
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Through years of struggle on New York City's Lower East Side and then in a growing upstate New York town, it is Umbertina's determination, ingenuity, and business sense that propel the family into financial success and securityāleaving her daughters and granddaughters free to sort out their identities both as Italian Americans and as women.
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"Through a dazzling interplay of American and Italian characters in both countries, Helen Barolini delineates the major concerns of all thinking American ethnics." This is no less true today, as this republication restoresĀ UmbertinaĀ to a reading public newly attuned to the complexities of cultural inheritance and identity ( The Philadelphia Inquirer).
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This sweeping, multi-generational novel begins in southern Italy's Calabria region in the late 1800s, as Umbertinaāthe wife of a simple farmerāpersuades her husband to emigrate to the United States to pursue its promise of hope and freedom for their three children.
Ā
Through years of struggle on New York City's Lower East Side and then in a growing upstate New York town, it is Umbertina's determination, ingenuity, and business sense that propel the family into financial success and securityāleaving her daughters and granddaughters free to sort out their identities both as Italian Americans and as women.
Ā
"Through a dazzling interplay of American and Italian characters in both countries, Helen Barolini delineates the major concerns of all thinking American ethnics." This is no less true today, as this republication restoresĀ UmbertinaĀ to a reading public newly attuned to the complexities of cultural inheritance and identity ( The Philadelphia Inquirer).
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Information
Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNYYear
2018eBook ISBN
9781558617278Subtopic
Literature GeneralTable of contents
- 1. Cover Page
- 2. Title Page
- 3. Copyright Page
- 4. Authorās Note
- 5. Dedication
- 6. Contents
- 7. Prologue
- 8. Part One: Umbertina 1860 - 1940
- 19. Part Two: Marguerite 1927 ā 1973
- 33. Part Three: Tina 1950 ā
- 46. Afterword
- 48. About the Author
- 49. About the Feminist Press
- 50. Also Available from the Feminist Press