Italian Folktales in America: The Verbal Art of an Immigrant Woman

by Elizabeth Mathias and Richard Raspa

Book Overview

In 1941, while studying folklore at Wayne University with Professor Emelyn Gardner, Bruna Todesco collected from her mother, Clementina, the twenty-two m rchen and legends presented in this book. Bruna, her mother, and her father, John, immigrated to America in 1930 from their native village of Faller in the Veneto region of northern Italy.

Not just made up of the recorded texts, this book is also built on the reminiscences of that storyteller...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814321224
• ISBN13: 9780814321225
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"