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Contents Acknowledgments / ix Introduction / 1 part one 1. The Italian Languages in Italy and America / 21 2. Linguistic Boundaries in American History / 43 part two 3.“He could not explain things the way I tell it”: The Immigrant in Translation / 79 4. The World Turned Upside Down in Farfariello’s Theater of Language / 114 5. The Identity Politics of Language: Italian Language Maintenance in New York City, 1920–40 / 136 6. Language, Italian American Identity, and the Limits of Cultural Pluralism in the World War II Years / 158 Epilogue / 179 Notes / 185 Index / 237 ...

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