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The republication of William Boelhower's Immigrant Autobiography shines a new spotlight on a brilliant and essential work, one that frames a discussion of Italian American lifestories with a sweeping and penetrating survey of the larger field of American autobiography. Supported by a scaffolding of immigration history, literary theory, and Boelhower's fluency in Italian and other languages, Immigrant Autobiography returns to assist us as we grapple with the continuing-and often invigorating-literary records of aspiration and movement charted by new generations. -John Wharton Lowe, Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature I had always hoped to see a new edition of William Boelhower's Immigrant Autobiography in the United States and here it is! A groundbreaking study of immigrant autobiography when it was first published, this revised and enlarged edition continues to impress with an additional chapter on Leonard Covello's The Heart is the Teacher. A superb and incisive account of Italian immigrants' encounter with a nativist America, Boelhower examines the collective and polyphonic voices that emerged from experiences of immigration to the United States during the great migration of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . . . A gifted writer with a broad and inclusive sensibility, Boelhower continues to advance the study of autobiography and enhances cross-cultural interchanges between Italy and America. -Mary Jo Bona, Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary

The republication of William Boelhower's Immigrant Autobiography shines a new spotlight on a brilliant and essential work, one that frames a discussion of Italian American lifestories with a sweeping and penetrating survey of the larger field of American autobiography. Supported by a scaffolding of immigration history, literary theory, and Boelhower's fluency in Italian and other languages, Immigrant Autobiography returns to assist us as we grapple with the continuing-and often invigorating-literary records of aspiration and movement charted by new generations. -John Wharton Lowe, Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature I had always hoped to see a new edition of William Boelhower's Immigrant Autobiography in the United States and here it is! A groundbreaking study of immigrant autobiography when it was first published, this revised and enlarged edition continues to impress with an additional chapter on Leonard Covello's The Heart is the Teacher. A superb and incisive account of Italian immigrants' encounter with a nativist America, Boelhower examines the collective and polyphonic voices that emerged from experiences of immigration to the United States during the great migration of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . . . A gifted writer with a broad and inclusive sensibility, Boelhower continues to advance the study of autobiography and enhances cross-cultural interchanges between Italy and America. -Mary Jo Bona, Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary

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William Boelhower, Adams Professor emeritus, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, is currently Visiting Professor in the Department of Linguistic and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University, Venice. Before teaching Atlantic Studies and Comparative Literature at LSU, he directed North American Literary Studies at the universities of Padua and Trieste, Italy. His books include Atlantic Studies, Prospects and Challenges; editor of New Orleans in the Atlantic World. Between Land and Sea; Through a glass darkly, ethnic semiosis in american literature. Among his many translations are the cultural writings of Antonio Gramsci and Lucien Goldmann's essays on the sociology of literature. He cofounded and coedited the Routlege journal Atlantic Studies and was a cofounder and board member of MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas).

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