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The Santuzzus are poor Sicilian farm laborers at the turn of the century who endure back-breaking work in the fields of a tyrannical landlord. Wanting more for their children and grandchildren than a lifetime of servitude, Papa Santuzzu and his wife Adriana push their seven sons and daughters, one by one, to immigrate to La Merica, a land of promise and opportunity.In each chapter of Tony Ardizzone's loving tribute to Sicilian American culture, the Santuzzu siblings tell us about the family and friends they have left behind in Sicily, the trials of their passage to New York, Chicago, and elsewhere, and the uncertain, yet ultimately satisfying lives they build in their adopted home. Interwoven throughout their tales are the traditional folklore and songs of Sicily. In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu is a rich and vibrant addition to our diverse body of immigration literature. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Rosa Dolci, Gaetanu, Luigi, Assunta, Salvatore, Rosaria and Livicedda Girgenti, Teresa Pantaluna, Ciccina Agneddina, and Carla and Gerlando Cavadduzzo all bribe their way out of the poverty of their island--one disguises herself as a man; another gains the help of enchanted eels. In La Merica they each settle in different cities and wait for their father to arrive. He never does. The children find jobs where “everyone is made to kneel down before Big Business and its creator, Capitalism.” One brother becomes a baker, another a hobo, another participates in the formation of a union in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The child Anna experiences visions of a Black Madonna in a Chicago orphanage.
Each of the siblings, in their own way, runs up against the barons of industry--not much unlike the tyrannical landlords in Sicily--who comment that if the garlic-reeking, “black-eyed and swarthy” Italians who have “an inborn inclination towards criminality” falls incapacitated beside his machine, “there are over a hundred others willing to take his place, often at a lower wage.”
The family truly becomes American--and the new world becomes not new anymore--when one of them dies. They cry so much as they drop his flesh into the ground that they realize a passing stranger might think they were crude. Yet more than that, as they stand at gravesite, they already know that “we had come to a land that would stunt and shame and silence us.”
This seems the wise impetus for Tony Ardizzone’s novel. Each chapter of …Papa Santuzzu tells whom an immigrant—-Sicilian, Italian, Mexican, Korean--might be. It is a story about the divine within gentle, valuable souls; it is family story; it is a story that makes you feel as if you are being held by a loving grandparent. Most importantly Tony Adrizzone’s novel echoes the past more loudly than the present so that future generations will not forget where they have come from. ( )