book chapter
Fact in fiction: oral traditions and the Italian American writer
melting pot and beyond: Italian Americans in the year 2000: proceedings of the XVIII Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association held at the Biltmore Plaza Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island, November 7-9, 1985 • Staten Island, New York • Published In 1987 • Pages: 165-174
By: Gardaphe, Fred L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of Italian-American literature. Gardaphe examines several major works and analyzes them in context of the rich oral culture of America's Italian immigrants. He ends the article with his own tale of a tale told to him as a boy by his grandfather.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Verbal arts
- Texts in the speaker's language
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ;1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1937-1981
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Fred L. Gardaphe
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 174)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87022170
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans