The Autobiography of a Language: Emanuel Carnevali's Italian/American Writing

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Carnevali versus Modernity
	A Language for the Outsider
	A Journey Across Two Languages
1. Translating Childhood, Decoding America
	1. Mother Tongues: Bilingualism and Emotion in Carnevali’s Autobiographical Writing
	2. Leaving the Fatherland
	3. The Immigrant and the Language of Modernity: Carnevali Arrives in New York
2. The Newcomer and the Splendid Commonplace: Using English as a Second Language
	1. The Splendid Commonplace
	2. “Because he was a foreigner”: Literary Style and Linguistic Assimilation
	3. Italian Echoes: Between Multilingual Influences and Complete Assimilation
3. Representing Italy in America
	1. Carnevali in Little Italy1
	2. Carnevali and Dante: Tradition and the Individual Italian
	3. “Something of Govoni in Frost”: Translating Italian Modernism
4. A Language for Bazzano: An Italian American Returns Home
	1. Carnevali’s Godhead: Turning Mental Distress and Displacement into Literature
	2. Return, Disappearance, and the Problem of the Audience
	3. Priests, Podestà, and Proverbs
5. Between the Atlantic and Oblivion: and Oblivion: Carnevali in the 1930s
	1. Carnevali, Pound, and the “eyetalian licherchoor”
	2. Carnevali and the Cantos
	3. From Italy to Italy: The Making of the Autobiography
Conclusion: Emanuel Carnevali in the 21st Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index