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Italian folktales in America : the verbal art of an immigrant woman
The first ethnographic study of a northern Italian folk artist and her verbal artistry in their cultural and historical contexts. The focus of this collection of folktales, delightful in their own right, is Clementina Todesco as developing artist. Supplementing the traditional märchen (magic tales)...
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
1985.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Mathias, Elizabeth. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Italian folktales in America : |b the verbal art of an immigrant woman |c Elizabeth Mathias and Richard Raspa ; foreword by Roger D. Abrahams |
| 260 | |a Detroit : |b Wayne State University Press, |c 1985. | ||
| 300 | |a xxi, 322 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a Includes 22 tales as told by Clementina Todesco. | ||
| 520 | |a The first ethnographic study of a northern Italian folk artist and her verbal artistry in their cultural and historical contexts. The focus of this collection of folktales, delightful in their own right, is Clementina Todesco as developing artist. Supplementing the traditional märchen (magic tales) she told as a girl in her remote village in the Italian Alps are the immigration stories that Clementina added to her repertoire after she had left rural Italy for the industrial cities of the New World. More than an anthology of folktales, the study adds information gathered over a ten-year period from the villagers of Faller, from collections of variants of the stories in Italy, and from analogues in published and archival sources in Detroit and Rome. Perhaps the most fascinating addition is a series of interviews with Clementina herself, which help to characterize her as a folk artist. The result greatly enriches our understanding of who tells folktales to whom, why, and how.--From publisher description. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-313). | ||
| 500 | |a Includes indexes. | ||
| 590 | |a The Balch Institute Library and Archives. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Italian Americans |v Folklore. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Tales |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Tales |z Italy. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Todesco, Clementina. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Storytellers |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Storytellers |z Italy. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Italian American women |v Folklore. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Raspa, Richard, |d 1940- | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Todesco, Clementina. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Mathias, Elizabeth. |t Italian folktales in America. |d Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1985 |w (OCoLC)561145494 |
| 852 | |a Historical Society of Pennsylvania |b Closed Stacks |h GR111.I73 M38 1985 |t 1 | ||
| 994 | |a C0 |b QQR | ||