Performative Ethnicity, Embodied Memory, and Oral History in Narratives from the Bronx Italian American History Initiative

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Research Article| January 01 2020 Performative Ethnicity, Embodied Memory, and Oral History in Narratives from the Bronx Italian American History Initiative Kathleen Lapenta; Kathleen Lapenta KATHLEEN LAPENTA is a senior lecturer in Italian at Fordham University and is co-director of the Bronx Italian American History Initiative. Her research specializes in modern Italian culture, diaspora studies, and memory at the intersection of literature and cinema; and she has published on Giovanni Verga, Florestano Vancini, Roberto Rossellini, as well as on Italian American identity and representation. She is currently at work on a book-length project that investigates representations of national diasporas in the contexts of migration, exile, and border crossings in Italy and abroad throughout the twentieth century. She is member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Diaspora Studies Seminar at the University of Calabria. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jacqueline Reich Jacqueline Reich JACQUELINE REICH is professor and chair of the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. Her areas of expertise include star studies, film history and theory, and Italian and Italian American cinema. She is the author of The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2015) and Beyond the Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity, and Italian Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2004). She is also co-author, with Catherine O’Rawe, of Divi: La mascolinità nel cinema italiano (Donzelli, 2015) and co-editor with Piero Garofalo of Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943 (Indiana University Press, 2002). Currently she is co-director, with Dr. Kathleen LaPenta, of the Bronx Italian American History Initiative, a community-engaged oral history research project at Fordham. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Italian American Review (2020) 10 (1): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.5406/italamerrevi.10.1.0001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kathleen Lapenta, Jacqueline Reich; Performative Ethnicity, Embodied Memory, and Oral History in Narratives from the Bronx Italian American History Initiative. Italian American Review 1 January 2020; 10 (1): 1–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/italamerrevi.10.1.0001 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressItalian American Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2020 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2020 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.