Description: ""New Italian Voices" is an anthology of English translations of short stories, poetry, drama and criticism by immigrant writers living in Italy and writing in Italian"--
Brief description: Cinzia Sartini Blum is a Professor of Italian at the University of Iowa. She is author of "Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature: Figures of Sub-jectivity in Progress" (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), and "The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). She edited "Futurism and the Avant-Garde" (special issue of the "South Central Review, "1996). Other publications include "Contemporary Italian Women Poets: A Bilingual Anthology" (with Lara Trubowitz, New York: Italica Press, 2001), an annotated translation of Carlo Michelstaedter's Persuasione e rettorica (with Russell Valentino and David Depew, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), and a translation of Susanna Tamaro's Anima Mundi (Bloomington, IN: Autumn Hill Books, 2007).
Review Quotes:
"Blum and Contrada furnish elegant and enjoyable translations...in this original collection of poetic, autobiographical, theatrical, and prose excerpts and provide an excellent theoretical introduction.... A major contribution." -- Carol Lazzaro-Weis, University of Missouri
"What an astounding range of subject matter and style in this brilliantly edited cornucopia!" -- Benjamin Taylor, author of "Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay"
A cogently well-organized anthology of new voices that have populated the Italian literary landscape for some time now. In today's world of literal and metaphorical border crossings and re-definitions of identities, New Italian Voices is an excellent reflection of the changes taking place in Italy today, a country no longer just of departure but indeed of arrival. Blum and Contrada have offered us an indispensable tool in our arsenal of re-considering "Italian" literature! -- Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute