“Nonnas” and Italian American Longing 

 

Years later, a new post on my updated Forte e Gentile site. It's a bit like shooting scungilli in a barrel, but I write about Netflix's "Nonnas," with a wider aim of pondering the reductive and undying cliches around a certain kind of Italian American nostalgia.

Recent Posts on Updated Forte e Gentile Site

 

Friends and readers, let me share some newer pieces posted to my updated version of Forte e Gentile:

"As only an Italian can": The Grand Gennaro, by Garibaldi M. Lapolla: a reading of this novel, first published in 1935.

WOP! or: You Talkin' to Me?: a discussion of WOP! A Documentary History of Anti-Italian Discrimination in the United States, edited by Salvatore J. LaGumina. 

 As always, thank you for reading!

Continuing Forte e Gentile at a new site

My thanks to all of you for reading my blog for the past eleven-plus years (and driving up the page views to more than 200,000). As of July 2020, I've moved over to a new site and will be continuing this blog from there:

https://forte-e-gentile.com/

Many thanks to Blogger for hosting me all these years. I'll be keeping this archive up for the foreseeable future. 

Ci vediamo presto!