JAST 60: Fall 2023 - ITALIAN AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE ISSUE
Published in October 2023, the 60th issue of the Journal of American Studies of Turkey is a special edition dedicated entirely to Italian American material culture, opening with an introductory overview by Elisabetta Marino laying the groundwork for the field. Stefano Luconi explores food as an arena for ethnic conflict and identity construction, Giulia Tarantino invites readers to examine food and cultural identity in Italian American literature, Ylenia De Luca analyzes food and women in Mary Di Michele’s novel Tenor of Love, and Giuseppe Capalbo reads material culture in the works of Louise DeSalvo. Other contributors focus on community traditions and regional history, with Matteo Cacco investigating religious rituals in Pietro Di Donato’s Three Circles of Light, Giannia A. Lucantoni moving beyond stereotypes in Di Donato's work, Vincenza Iadevaia collecting myth histories of Italian Floridians in South Florida, and Christine Contrada traces Giuseppe Garibaldi’s footsteps on Staten Island.
