Building an Identity on Paper: The Negotiation of Italianitá in the Early North American Ethnic Press

This article examines the language of one of the several Italian newspapers in-print between the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century in North America, the Gazzetta del Massachusetts. The goal of this paper is to show how the journalistic activity borne by overseas immigrants ha...

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Main Author:	Franco Pierno
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Presses Universitaires du Midi 2011-09-01
Series:	Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
Online Access:	http://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/1838

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title	Building an Identity on Paper: The Negotiation of Italianitá in the Early North American Ethnic Press
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description	This article examines the language of one of the several Italian newspapers in-print between the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century in North America, the Gazzetta del Massachusetts. The goal of this paper is to show how the journalistic activity borne by overseas immigrants have re-created and/or re-negotiated a new «Italianità» via a quite different use of the Italian language when compared to coeval papers printed in Italy.
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Building an Identity on Paper: The Negotiation of Italianitá in the Early North American Ethnic Press

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