Qui in America si soffre di più d'altri punti
ISSN: 2975-1942
Language: Italian
Publisher: Paolo Loffredo Editore Srl
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Qui in America si soffre di più d'altri punti
The two curators present research conducted on the emigration that took place between the end of the nineteenth century and the 1940s in the municipalities of Licignano and Casalnuovo di Napoli. The central nucleus of the work consists of 64 letters sent by the emigrants of these two communities to their relatives. The letters, preserved in the municipal archives, were attached to the subsidy requests presented to the Podestà of the Municipality of Casalnuovo by virtue of the law issued by Mussolini which granted a daily subsidy to the family members of emigrants to the United States who were no longer able to receive the money since 1942 when the American government went to war against Italy.
The volume is a microhistory of southern emigration through the examination of the bureaucratic and real problems that afflicted those who courageously faced the long transoceanic journey in conditions that were sometimes desperate as well as extremely uncomfortable, to realize their American dream. Men, women and children live between the lines of this story, not unlike the others and with many affinities to the modern ones that crowd the Mediterranean. The journey, the conditions, the arrival on American soil, the requests for help from relatives and the hopes for a better future are the themes of the entire volume, which also collects other useful data to outline the cultural condition of the time through the writing of the thoughts of the emigrants and to bring other useful elements to the construction of the linguistic history of Campania.
