Italian Folktales in America: The Verbal Art of an Immigrant Woman

by Elizabeth Mathias and Richard Raspa

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In 1941, while studying folklore at Wayne University with Professor Emelyn Gardner, Bruna Todesco collected from her mother, Clementina, the twenty-two m rchen and legends presented in this book. Bruna, her mother, and her father, John, immigrated to America in 1930 from their native village of Faller in the Veneto region of northern Italy.

Not just made up of the recorded texts, this book is also built on the reminiscences of that storyteller...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0814321224

ISBN13:9780814321225

Release Date:October 1988

Publisher:Wayne State University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Classics European Folklore & Mythology Literary Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Mythology Mythology & Folk Tales Politics & Social Sciences

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