Representing Sacco and Vanzetti [Hardcover]

Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested outside Boston in 1920 and charged with robbing and killing a shoe factory paymaster and his guard. Though a prosecutor insisted they would be tried for murder and 'nothing else', their radical politics remained a focus of the 1921 trial. Contributors from a range of academic disciplines and artistic traditions apply critical and interpretive methodologies, assume novel historical perspectives, and analyze overlooked primary materials to illuminate previously unexplored aspects of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. The essays in this book analyze literary, artistic, and mass mediated representations of Sacco and Vanzetti, linking them to stereotypes of so-called 'foreigners' and 'others' that prevailed in the 1920s, and interrogating those images that prevail in our own age.Introduction: The Sacco and Vanzetti Case: 1920-2003; M.A.Trasciatti & J.Delamater PART ONE: HISTORY, MEMORY, AND THE CASE OF SACCO AND VANZETTI The Beautiful Idea: Italian Anarchism from Malatesta to Tresca; S.Pugliese The American Campaign to Save Sacco and Vanzetti; M.A.Trasciatti Transatlantic Solidarities: The Sacco Vanzetti Case in Europe; L.McGirr PART TWO: THE MAKING OF A MYTH: SACCO AND VANZETTI IN ART, LITERATURE, AND FILM Sacco and Vanzetti: The Italian American Legacy; F.Gardaphe Ben Shahn and The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti Revisited; A.Anreus 'Ora e Sempre Resistenza!': Sacco and Vanzetti on Screen; G.Monti PART THREE: (RE)PRESENTING SACCO AND VANZETTI 'Hearts that Grow Not Cold': Structures of Feeling and Vanzetti's Beloved Anarchy; D.Lang Sacco and Vanzetti on the Musical Stage; L.Lehrman Historical Documentary: Problems, Purposes, Ideals - A Conversation with Peter Miller PART FOUR: THE MEDIA AND 'THE OTHER': FROM ITALIAN AMERICANS TO ARAB AMERICANS White Others: The Politics of Racial Hierarchy and 'Americanness' from Sacco and Vanzetti to a Post 9/11 World; J.Twomey From Sacco and Vanzetti to Mumia Abu Jamal: Is lC*