The Imagined Immigrant

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The Imagined Immigrant is written by Ilaria Serra and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0838641989 (ISBN 10) and 9780838641989 (ISBN 13).

Using original sources--such as newspaper articles, silent movies, letters, autobiographies, and interviews--Ilaria Serra depicts a large tapestry of images that accompanied mass Italian migration to the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. She chooses to translate the Italian concept of immaginario with the Latin imago that felicitously blends the double English translation of the word as "imagery" and "imaginary." Imago is a complex knot of collective representations of the immigrant subject, a mental production that finds concrete expression; impalpable, yet real. The "imagined immigrant" walks alongside the real one in flesh and rags.