{"product_id":"when-i-am-italian","title":"When I Am Italian","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan a person born outside of Italy be considered Italian?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"My ancestral Italian village in America was in Waterbury Connecticut.\" In this sentence, Joanna Clapps Herman raises the central question of this book: To what extent can a person born outside of Italy be considered Italian? The granddaughter of Italian immigrants who arrived in the United States in the early 1900s, Herman takes a complicated and nuanced look at the question of to whom and to which culture she ultimately belongs. Sometimes the Italian part of her identity-her \u003ci\u003eItalianità\u003c\/i\u003e-feels so aboriginal as to be inchoate, inexpressible. Sometimes it finds its expression in the rhythms of daily life. Sometimes it is embraced and enhanced; at others, it feels attenuated. \"If, like me,\" Herman writes, \"you are from one of Italy's overseas colonies, at least some of this \u003ci\u003eItalianità\u003c\/i\u003e will be in your skin, bones, and heart: other pieces have to be understood, considered, called to ourselves through study, travel, reading. Some of it is just longing. How do we know which pieces are which?\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53511855309167,"sku":"9781438477183","price":199.4,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/143847718X.jpg?v=1790030778","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/when-i-am-italian","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}