• 2: Italian-American Identity: The Masks of Religious Difference in the Novels of John Fante and Pietro Di Donato

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    Autor Jean F. Béranger
    Fecha 1994
    URL https://lens.org/080-201-240-888-583
    Adicional Publisher: Wiley
    Volumen 11
    Páginas 58-78
    Publicación Center for Migration Studies special issues
    DOI 10.1111/j.2050-411x.1994.tb00753.x
    Número 3
    ISSN 2050411x
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  • 4 Victorian Virtues and Orality in the Novels of John Fante

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    Fecha 1995
    URL https://lens.org/072-043-255-900-599
    Adicional Place: United States Publisher: SAGE Publications
    Volumen 29
    Páginas 27-35
    Publicación International Migration Review
    DOI 10.1177/019791839502901s07
    Número 1_suppl
    ISSN 01979183
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  • A SIMPLICIDADE MORDENTE DE UM PROTAGONISTA-ESCRITOR OUTSIDER: ESTUDO DE ASK THE DUST E DREAMS FROM BUNKER HILL DE JOHN FANTE

    Tipo de elemento Tesis
    Autor Bruna Arozi Abelin
    Fecha 2015-05-26
    URL https://lens.org/074-765-662-086-552
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  • ALGUNS APONTAMENTOS SOBRE A OBRA DE JOHN FANTE

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    Autor Cícero César Sotero Batista
    Resumen Este artigo tem como objetivo abordar o tema da origem italiana, na obra do autor italo-americano John Fante (1909-1983), a partir do comentario e analise de alguns de seus romances. Como ponto de partida, foi utilizado um texto de Charles Buckowski (1920-1983) que, em tom de gratidao e reconhecimento, introduz a obra de Fante aos novos leitores.
    Fecha 2015-07-05
    URL https://lens.org/121-781-737-256-804
    Volumen 1
    Número 1
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  • Arturo Bandini the Viking: How Long Beach Junior College Transformed the Writing of John Fante

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    Autor Daniel Hutto
    Fecha 2017-07-01
    URL https://lens.org/199-973-328-841-507
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  • AS PERGUNTAS QUE JOHN FANTE E ROBERT TOWNE FIZERAM AO PÓ

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    Autor Eliza Mitiyo Morinaka
    Resumen Ask the dust, romance escrito por John Fante e publicado nos Estados Unidos em 1939, foi adaptado para o cinema pelo diretor Robert Towne em 2006. Tanto o livro como o filme narram a trajetoria de Arturo Bandini, um escritor tentando sobreviver na decadente Los Angeles da decada de 1930, quando entao conhece Camila Lopez, uma imigrante mexicana, por quem se apaixona. O objetivo deste artigo e descrever e analisar a transformacao dos signos linguisticos para signos visuais, que sao organizados como legissignos para intensificar tres dimensoes nesse novo meio: a) a religiosidade de Bandini; b) o antagonismo entre os personagens principais; e c) o preconceito racial. De acordo com a tipologia intersemiotica de Julio Plaza, que se fundamenta na teoria de semiose de Sanders Peirce, os legissignos sao classificados como ‘indices’, representado pelo livro na qualidade de ponto de partida; ‘icones’, aqui pensados enquanto a existencia de um grau de similaridade entre o objeto dinâmico e o imediato; e ‘simbolos’, que sao as conexoes estabelecidas arbitrariamente entre um objeto dinâmico e um imediato. Robert Towne valeu-se da linguagem cinematografica para a concretizacao de um roteiro aparentemente simples, mas de alto cunho social, pois atualiza a tematica da imigracao ilegal de mexicanos nos Estados Unidos.
    Fecha 2014-12-18
    URL https://lens.org/123-320-324-154-632
    Volumen 3
    Número 1
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  • Ask the Dust

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    Autor Dunja Nedic
    Resumen John Fante, Ask the Dust (Canongate Books, 2012)I assume that my reason for choosing to read Ask the Dust, the third novel John Fante wrote (though the second to be published), is similar to many people's: it has earned the praise of Charles Bukowski. As Bukowski is not especially renowned for undeserved or indiscriminate admiration, the 2012 Canongate edition featuring an introduction by the late author will likely attract many new readers to Bukowski's little known hero.Ask the Dust is one of four books featuring Arturo Bandini, Fante's alter ego, in what has been termed 'The Bandini Quartet'. It's the most popular novel of the saga and has seen something of a renaissance over the past decade, likely in part due to Robert Towne's 2006 film adaptation of the book.The problem is that if you are familiar with Bukowski's writing, Ask the Dust, despite being published more than three decades before Bukowski's debut novel, will feel a little too familiar. If the quote 'good artists copy, great artists steal' is to be taken as gospel, then Bukowski can certainly be deemed a great artist. But whether it's because Bukowski has become notorious enough to make his alter ego worth caring about, or because he simply is a writer who provokes more investment in his characters, it is this lack of investment in Fante's protagonist that is fundamentally missing from his writing.There are moments of very basic yet astonishing beauty in Ask the Dust, like Fante's description of the sun as simply 'a defiant red ball as it sank beyond the sea' (112) and his assertion to his love's lover that 'the ink spot you have splattered will never be examined from a longer view' (138). But they overwhelmingly do not make up for the, at best, faceless (at worst, loathsome) characters.Where a passionate but damaging relationship is promised in the blurb, the liaison between Bandini and Camilla Lopez, a waitress whom he almost arbitrarily becomes enamoured with, oscillates between revering and humiliating. Camilla is initially depicted as sympathetic, but her pandering to Bandini even as he readily insults and attempts to destroy her ultimately renders her weak and unlikeable. Though fragility and flaw will often add depth to a character, Camilla is only ever shown through Bandini's perception, and while the inability to see her as a whole person is a shortcoming on the part of the protagonist (presumably a deliberate construction by Fante), it also makes it difficult to extrapolate much about her beyond the very simple slice we are shown.Bandini is similarly exasperating, inciting the same kind of frustration as Knut Hamsun's unnamed protagonist in Hunger. …
    Fecha 2013-05-01
    URL https://lens.org/143-086-278-032-425
    Volumen 5
    Páginas 1
    Publicación Transnational Literature
    Número 2
    ISSN 18364845
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  • Ask the lyrics: John Fante in music

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    Autor Chiara Mazzucchelli
    Resumen The crosspollination of literature and lyrics is not a new phenomenon in popular music and classics of world literature continue to inspire songwriters who incorporate them in their art in different ways and forms. Interestingly enough, a not-yet-classic author like the Italian-American John Fante has had an impact on popular culture and music both in Italy and in the United States. Grossly neglected by mainstream American literature, mainly labeled as an “ethnic” writer, John Fante has only recently become widely read in Italy and he has already developed unusual ties with music in both countries. In this article, I will briefly survey the reception of John Fante in the United States and Italy by tracing the history of the publication of his works in translation. I will then present a review of some Italian and American songs that explicitly draw inspiration from Arturo Bandini, the protagonist of Fante’s saga. This article is an exploration of the relationship between literature, music, and society thro...
    Fecha 2015-04-24
    URL https://lens.org/043-730-873-343-251
    Adicional Place: United States Publisher: SAGE Publications
    Volumen 49
    Páginas 596-610
    Publicación Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies
    DOI 10.1177/0014585815581815
    Número 2
    ISSN 00145858
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  • Ask the Lyrics: John Fante in Music

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    Autor Chiara Mazzucchelli
    Resumen <p>The crosspollination of literature and lyrics is not a new phenomenon in popular music, and classics of world literature continue to inspire songwriters who incorporate them in their art in different ways and forms. Although perhaps not yet quite recognized as a classic author, the Italian-American novelist John Fante has had an impact on popular culture and music both in Italy and in the United States. Reviewing a range of Italian and American songs that draw inspiration from Arturo Bandini, the protagonist of Fante’s saga, this essay explores the relationship among literature, music, and society through a reflection on the impact that a non-canonical American writer has on popular culture and how his ethnic experience reverberates in the singer/reader/listener’s life before earning approval from mainstream critics.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/051-558-899-188-518
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0007
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 127-144
    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • Ask the lyrics: john fante in music

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    Autor Chiara Mazzucchelli
    Fecha 2020-12-31
    URL https://lens.org/089-637-465-137-769
    Adicional DOI: 10.1515/9780823287888-007
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 127-144
    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • At Home in America: John Fante and the Imaginative American Self

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    Autor Melissa Ryan
    Resumen A day and another day and the day before, and the library with the big boys in the shelves, old Dreiser, old Mencken, all the boys down there, and I went to see them, Hya Dreiser, Hya Mencken, Hya, hya: there's a place for me, too, and it begins with B, in the B shelf, Arturo Bandini, make way for Arturo Bandini, his slot for his book, and I sat at the table and just looked at the place where my book would be, right there close to Arnold Bennett; not much that Arnold Bennett, but I'd be there to sort of bolster up the B's, old Arturo Bandini, one of the boys, until some girl came along, some scent of perfume through the fiction room, some click of high heels to break up the monotony of my fame. Gala day, gala dream! --John Fante, Ask the Dust After more than half a century of silence from the academy, West Coast writer John Fante has finally begun to draw the critical attention he so richly deserves. (1) With a critical foundation in place, we can now begin to ask more complicated questions of his work. Scholarship to date has largely been concerned with Fante's hyphenated ethnicity and how he negotiates an Italian identity in an American context; looking particularly at the Italian inflection of Fante's work, critics seem chiefly to locate him within an Italian-American framework. But some of the most illuminating work on the coming-of-age saga of his alter ego, Arturo Bandini, situates Fante in an American literary tradition. (2) As his lifelong friend Carey McWilliams has famously said, Fante "is as American as Huckleberry Finn." (3) While Fante is indeed preoccupied with what it means to inherit an Italian identity, his lineage as a writer is deeply American. Not only does he find in H. L. Mencken an icon of mentorship and in his library card a passkey to the foundation of American letters, Fante's debt to the culture he grew up in manifests itself on the page in ways that have not yet been adequately questioned. Fante's italianita is by no means irrelevant; his marginalized perspective gives us an entry into the deeply naturalized American traditions he writes from. Both inside and outside American culture, Fante both imitates and questions American habits of figuration. Looking at the Bandini series as thoroughly American narratives, then--narratives, that is, of Americanness--allows us to consider the implications of a distinctively American imagination. Wait Until Spring, Bandini the chronological opening of the Bandini saga, begins with a homeward journey. Italian immigrant Svevo Bandini is kicking his way through Colorado snow, heading toward his unpaid-for house and dreaming of his Abruzzi boyhood. Likewise, the novel is for Fante a writerly act of going home--of revisiting his Colorado childhood and the origins of the boy who imagined the artist into being. One might expect of this novel, then, a narrative parallel to Svevo's fantasy of Italy; "home" might be expected to mean a return for Fante to his Italian identity. But the most significant at-homeness in this novel is perhaps neither that centered in Arturo's mother, Maria, nor the conflicted and conflicting homes occupied by his father, Svevo, but the one Arturo experiences at the movies. At once he was under the spell of that celluloid drug. He was positive that his own face bore a striking resemblance to that of Robert Powell, and he was equally sure that the face of Gloria Borden bore an amazing resemblance to his wonderful Rosa: thus he found himself perfectly at home, laughing uproariously at Robert Powell's witty comments, and shuddering with voluptuous delight whenever Gloria Borden looked passionate. Gradually Robert Powell lost his identity and became Arturo Bandini, and gradually Gloria Borden metamorphosed into Rosa Pinelli. After the big airplane crackup, with Rosa lying on the operating table, and none other than Arturo Bandini performing a precarious operation to save her life, the boy in the front seat broke into a sweat. …
    Fecha 2004
    URL https://lens.org/097-451-465-277-600
    Adicional Publisher: Project Muse
    Volumen 32
    Páginas 185-212
    Publicación Studies in American Fiction
    DOI 10.1353/saf.2004.0005
    Número 2
    ISSN 2158415x
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  • California Grotesques: Torture, Fiction, and Ethnic Identity in John Fante's Ask the Dusk

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    Autor Elizabeth Bracey
    Fecha 2013-08-27
    URL https://lens.org/130-734-768-823-204
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  • City Limits

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    Autor Alice Bilger
    Resumen <jats:p>This essay explores the idea of city limits, real and metaphorical walls, and boundaries raised within and around the urban environment. The focus is on American urban epicentres, and by analysing two literary works, John Fante’s Los Angeles novel Ask the Dust and Lorraine Hansberry’s Chicago play A Raisin in the Sun, it interrogates what form the walls within those spaces might take, why they are raised, and what effects they have on the city’s inhabitants – especially the marginalised groups who tend to be either excluded, restricted or enclosed by them. In this essay, I suggest that boundaries are created or enforced as a result of a fear of loss of space and power within the urban environment which leads to the consistent marginalisation of the Other as exhibited in both texts. In other words, the essay will demonstrate that the physical and fiscal boundaries represented in the novel and play are masking a more complex set of boundaries of racial exclusion and hierarchies in place within the American urban space.</jats:p>
    Fecha 2019-06-28
    URL https://lens.org/176-861-584-621-545
    Adicional Publisher: Edinburgh University Library
    Publicación FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts
    DOI 10.2218/forum.28.3045
    Número 28
    ISSN 17499771
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  • Cracking the codes : a textual and editorial examination of John Fante's literature

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    Autor Christopher. McCormack
    Fecha 2001
    URL https://lens.org/015-439-842-093-57X
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  • Da ficção autobiográfica à memória ficcionalizada: o entretecimento da narrativa de John Fante

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    Autor Flavia Renata Machado Paiani
    Fecha 2007
    URL https://lens.org/109-351-885-441-943
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  • Delinquent Dogs and the Molise Malaise: Negotiating Suburbia in John Fante's "My Dog Stupid"

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    Autor RUTH HAWTHORN
    Resumen <jats:p>This article explores ideas of suburban masculinity in “My Dog Stupid” (1986), a comic novella by the critically neglected novelist and screenwriter John Fante. Placing the text within the context of the twentieth-century suburban “canon,” I argue that Fante complicates and critiques the dystopian image of American suburbia that has dominated both fictional and sociological representations of this environment over the past seventy years.</jats:p>
    Fecha 2017-05-03
    URL https://lens.org/107-170-429-964-630
    Adicional Place: United Kingdom Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
    Volumen 52
    Páginas 766-786
    Publicación Journal of American Studies
    DOI 10.1017/s0021875817000408
    Número 3
    ISSN 00218758
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  • Delinquent dogs and the Molise malaise: negotiating suburbia in John Fante’s “My Dog Stupid”

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    Autor Ruth Hawthorn
    Resumen This article explores ideas of suburban masculinity in “My Dog Stupid” (1986), a comic novella by the critically neglected novelist and screenwriter John Fante. Placing the text within the context of the twentieth-century suburban “canon,” I argue that Fante complicates and critiques the dystopian image of American suburbia that has dominated both fictional and sociological representations of this environment over the past seventy years.
    Fecha 2017-05-03
    URL https://lens.org/028-864-865-749-083
    Adicional Place: United Kingdom Publisher: Cambridge University Press
    Volumen 52
    Páginas 1-21
    Publicación Journal of American Studies
    Número 3
    ISSN 00218758
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  • Diaspora, Social Protest, and the Unreliable Narrator: Challenging Hierarchies of Race and Class in John Fante's Ask the Dust

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    Autor Suzanne Roszak
    Resumen Although the work of John Fante remains relatively understudied, with only a few articles published to date about Fante's novel Ask the Dust (1939), (1) the conversation about his fiction has shifted and developed in important respects. Notably, this includes the discussion of Arturo Bandini's Italianness in Ask the Dust, which has gradually given way to discourse about his whiteness and the prejudices that accompany it. If earlier readers were interested in interrogating how Fante's narrator navigates the space between assimilation and cultural identification, (2) more recent critics such as Matthew Elliott have dedicated themselves to examining Bandini's complicity with racist ideology: the ways that he embraces and asserts his own whiteness while essentializing and even denigrating people of color, including individuals from other diasporic communities such as the Filipina/o community and especially the Chicana/o community in 1930s Los Angeles. (3) And indeed, this perspective is more than valid. While Arturo Bandini might loudly proclaim himself to be an outcast incapable of winning true acceptance in an urban society whose vision of white American culture only intermittently includes Italian Americans, Ask the Dust ultimately presents us with a protagonist whose own investment in joining this white society is matched by his disdain for the non-white city residents with whom he is so routinely associated in the eyes of others. Should we conclude, then, that Ask the Dust itself is ultimately a conservative rather than a subversive text, that it consolidates more than it protests the hold of racist ideology on Depression-era American society? Does the novel itself encourage us to turn a blind eye to the intermittent bigotry of its protagonist? Given that Ask the Dust is widely read as a roman-a-clef (4)--and with good reason given the biographical correspondences between Bandini and Fante, on which Fante himself is known to have commented (5)--we might feel some temptation to assume that Ask the Dust positions Bandini in the role of hero. Certainly, this is the perspective that Charles Bukowski seems to have assumed in identifying so closely with Bandini in the introduction to the 1980 edition of the novel. (6) My contention, however, is different. In this article, I argue that Fante's novel encourages readers to protest white supremacist logic--and, in particular, racist depictions of Chicana/o culture--in the same way that it encourages us to challenge class hierarchy: via negative example. I also argue that to understand how this occurs, we must consider Bandini as a diasporic character struggling and failing to cope with the intersection of his own diasporic trajectory with those of other displaced individuals--most importantly, the Chicana waitress whose ethnic identity Bandini repeatedly insults and essentializes. (7) This is a new approach that previous criticism has not considered in depth. In colliding Arturo Bandini with Camilla Lopez, Ask the Dust creates a diasporic triangle that connects Italy and Mexico with Bandini and Camilla's shared adopted homeland of the United States. Interestingly, rather than modeling the type of solidarity that we might imagine stemming from such a collision, Ask the Dust instead presents us with a cautionary tale of intersecting diasporas: Fante illustrates what occurs when one diasporic community competes for class standing and acceptance into white "majority culture" rather than resisting claims of both white superiority and socioeconomic elitism. Fante's text is narrated by an often misguided diasporic voice: the voice of a very young man who as often succumbs to classist aspirations and judgments as he resists or battles them, and who as often resorts to stereotyping or bigoted views of other diasporic communities as he denounces such views. Still, Fante shapes Bandini's character in ways that ultimately encourage us to question this example that he sets rather than embracing or even passively observing it. …
    Fecha 2016
    URL https://lens.org/100-414-203-510-277
    Adicional Publisher: Project Muse
    Volumen 48
    Páginas 186-204
    Publicación Studies in the Novel
    DOI 10.1353/sdn.2016.0022
    Número 2
    ISSN 19341512
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  • Dreams and Disillusions : John Fante's Oxymoronic Italian Americana

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    Autor Alessandra Senzani
    Fecha 2006
    URL https://lens.org/165-360-078-877-367
    Páginas 1000-1016
    Número 6
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  • El arte de John Fante

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    Autor Antonio-Prometeo Moya Valle
    Resumen Autoría: Antonio-Prometeo Moya Valle. Localización: Lateral: Revista de Cultura. Nº. 124, 2005. Artículo de Revista en Dialnet.
    Fecha 2005
    Idioma spa
    Catálogo de biblioteca dialnet.unirioja.es
    URL https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=1399724
    Accedido 6/12/2022 6:22:09
    Adicional Publisher: Lateral Ediciones Section: Lateral: Revista de Cultura
    Páginas 8-9
    Publicación Lateral: Revista de Cultura
    Número 124
    ISSN 1134-8755
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  • El vino de la juventud, de John Fante: gracias, Bikowski

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    Autor Nelson Díaz
    Fecha 2014
    URL https://lens.org/149-256-289-305-342
    Volumen 8
    Páginas 35
    Número 43
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  • Etnicità allargate. Nuove prospettive sulle subalternità etniche e sociali nell’opera di John Fante

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    Autor Enrico Mariani
    Resumen This note is a commentary on Elisa Bordin’s Un’etnicita complessa. Negoziazioni identitarie nelle opere di John Fante. Napoli: La scuola di Pitagora editrice, 2019, pp. 233.
    URL https://lens.org/197-784-126-320-29X
    Volumen 4
    Páginas 183-185
    DOI 10.13125/americacritica/4348
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  • FALAR DE SI, FALAR DO OUTRO: O PERSONAGEM ARTURO BANDINI, DE JOHN FANTE

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    Autor Lucimara de Andrade
    Autor Matheus Roedel Evangelista
    Resumen Resumo Os romances analisados tem como elo o personagem Arturo Bandini, considerado alter ego do escritor John Fante, cujo contexto e o da Grande Depressao americana: Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), The Road to Los Angeles (cronologicamente este e o primeiro romance da saga, mas foi publicado apenas postumamente, em 1985), Ask the Dust (1939) e Dreams from Bunker Hill (1982). Considerando as tematicas e o estilo de escrita de John Fante nos romances aqui discutidos, podemos relaciona-los a experiencia do escritor marginal em um panorama nada favoravel: um futuro pouco promissor em um pais que amarga um cenario economico recessivo. Forjado para a escrita, Bandini configura-se como uma especie de espelhamento do autor, um personagem no qual Fante se insere atraves do tempo e da narrativa no âmbito da escrita de cunho autobiografico.
    Fecha 2021-06-07
    URL https://lens.org/185-959-098-280-660
    Adicional Place: Brazil Publisher: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
    Volumen 74
    Páginas 131-149
    Publicación Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies
    DOI 10.5007/2175-8026.2021.e76083
    Número 2
    ISSN 21758026
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  • Fante, John (1909–1983)

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    Autor Paul Ardoin
    Resumen <jats:p>American author John Fante (8 April 1909–8 May 1983) is best known for his Arturo Bandini novels, including The Road to Los Angeles (written 1933, published 1985), Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), Dreams from Bunker Hill (published 1982), and in particular Ask the Dust (1939). While his interwar novels and short stories were met with critical acclaim, he found far more financial success working in the film industry, where he wrote scripts for figures such as Orson Welles while socializing with other contract writers such as William Faulkner. His highly autobiographical fiction frequently showed the influence of, and made reference to, figures like Friedrich Nietzsche and H. L. Mencken. His work dealt largely with the experiences of working-class Americans of Italian descent and their interactions with other marginalized groups.</jats:p>
    Fecha 2018-09-10
    URL https://lens.org/095-773-813-757-096
    Adicional DOI: 10.4324/9781135000356-rem645-1
    Editorial Routledge
    Título del libro Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism
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  • Fetishism and Displacement in John Fante's The Road to Los Angeles

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    Autor Adam Kilic
    Resumen The Road to Los Angeles, the first novel written by Italian-American author John Fante, is most often recognized as a tale concerned with Italian-American alienation, xenophobia and existence on the periphery of mainstream society. This essay, however, aims to analyze the novel from the viewpoint of fetishism. Fetishism, a motif that constitutes a vast theoretical field in itself, will be analyzed using the lens of Freudian theory and more recent works by critics such as Louise J. Kaplan and Johanna Malt. While fetishism unproblematically can be defined as the misdirection of libidinal energy, and the objectification of a sexual object’s seductive powers, this essay also aims to throw light on the intricate nature and general applicability of fetishism.Fante depicts fetishism as essentially oxymoronic in its presence-absence duality, as instrumental in animating the inanimate and dehumanizing the sexual object. Fetishism, which in many ways shares an affinity with scopophilia and voyeurism, is essentially semiotic and instrumental in projecting the will onto the external world. Moreover, read through the lens of the inherent death drive, as theorized by Sigmund Freud, manifestations of brutal violence and self-torture are seen as direct counterparts to fetishism.
    Fecha 2012
    URL https://lens.org/100-893-330-659-454
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  • From Bricklayers to Writers: Representations of Italian-American Masculinities in John Fante’s "Bandini Quartet"

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    Autor Robert Claudiu Moscaliuc
    Fecha 2014
    URL https://lens.org/156-884-975-734-068
    Páginas 109-134
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  • Frontiers of Modern Ethnic American Fiction: Exploring the Popular West in the Writings of Mike Gold, Nathanael West, Américo Paredes, and John Fante

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    Autor Daniel Gregory Gardner
    Resumen Destabilizing the authentic notions of nationhood and manhood disseminated in dominant narratives about the American West, Frontiers of Modern Ethnic American Fiction: Exploring the Popular West in the Writings of Mike Gold, Nathanael West, John Fante, and Americo Paredes contemplates representations of the popular West in early-twentieth-century ethnic- American fiction. The project surveys novels, short stories, and articles composed by modern ethnic-American-male writers. I argue that the ethnic writers of this study broadened the predominant definition of American culture by adopting and adapting cowboy masculinity and motifs of the popular West to the ends of their literary narratives of ethnic masculinity. Writing during a period of immigration restriction and rampant xenophobia, the authors examined here--Mike Gold, Nathanael West, Americo Paredes, and John Fante--deploy figures of cowboy masculinity, celebrated by the popular West, to interrogate and resist the dominant Americanist conception of what constituted the authentic national body. The popular West consists of texts about the American West popularly consumed and circulating in mass culture. Consistent among the popular West's many iterations is a national narrative crafted from a peculiarly Anglo-American historiography that articulated the settlement of the frontier as evidence of American racial superiority. Often motivated by a nativism and pride in Anglo origins, the architects of such dominant narratives fashioned histories and stories of the frontier, where national success was contingent upon the triumph of Anglo-Saxon manhood. These stories experienced tremendous popularity from the late-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century, appearing in a variety of forms including the dime novel, pulp fiction, stage show, and film. Modern ethnic authors respond to the popular West in different ways, yet all are preoccupied with how popular cultural narratives of the West under the pretext of historical truth convey what it means to be an authentic American and to what extent ethnic groups can stake a real claim to belong in the United States. Examining the responses of modern ethnic American writers to the popular West, my project merges critical subjects--ethnic American literature, popular culture, and the American West--yet to be examined by literary scholarship.
    Fecha 2014
    URL https://lens.org/030-223-906-026-992
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  • Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante

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    Autor Stephen Cooper
    Fecha 2000
    URL https://lens.org/106-060-708-416-502
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  • Giovanni e Arturo: stranieri a L.A. Una lettura di Andrea De Carlo e John Fante

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    Autor Silvia La Regina
    Resumen Questo articolo nasce da un parallelo fra la tetralogia di Arturo Bandini, dell´italoamericano John Fante, e il romanzo Treno di panna, di Andrea De Carlo, ambientati a Los Angeles. Oltre ad analizzare i testi, si legge il modo in cui i protagonisti vivono la loro condizione di stranieri e il dialogo fra le diverse opere in una dialettica moderno/postmoderno.
    Fecha 2005-12-30
    URL https://lens.org/115-469-935-590-922
    Adicional Publisher: Universidade de Sao Paulo, Agencia USP de Gestao da Informacao Academica (AGUIA)
    Páginas 91-106
    Publicación Revista de Italianística
    DOI 10.11606/issn.2238-8281.v0i10-11p91-106
    Número 10-11
    ISSN 22388281
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  • Hacia una genealogía literaria de la precariedad: "Camino de Los Ángeles" de John Fante

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    Autor Oriol García Rovira
    Resumen Autoría: Oriol García Rovira. Localización: La filosofía social ante la precariedad: genealogías, resistencias, diagnósticos, 2021. Artículo de Libro en Dialnet.
    Fecha 2021
    Idioma spa
    Título corto Hacia una genealogía literaria de la precariedad
    Catálogo de biblioteca dialnet.unirioja.es
    URL https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=8537004
    Accedido 6/12/2022 6:24:17
    Adicional Section: La filosofía social ante la precariedad: genealogías, resistencias, diagnósticos
    Editorial Los Libros de la Catarata
    ISBN 978-84-13-52338-5
    Páginas 119-144
    Título de las actas La filosofía social ante la precariedad: genealogías, resistencias, diagnósticos, 2021, ISBN 978-84-1352-338-5, págs. 119-144
    Nombre de la conferencia La filosofía social ante la precariedad: genealogías, resistencias, diagnósticos
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  • "I dare you to call me a wop!". Italian ethnicity in the early fiction of John Fante

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    Autor Dario Gasparin
    Fecha 2008
    URL https://lens.org/019-837-505-577-45X
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  • "I was Robinson Crusoe": John Fante e la penombra della memoria in Dreams from Bunker Hill

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    Autor Francesca D'Alfonso
    Fecha 2013
    URL https://lens.org/141-073-082-780-426
    Páginas 67-86
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  • Il fallimento dell'American Dream come rimedio alla moderna desertificazione americana in John Fante

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    Autor Ivan Pozzoni
    Fecha 2013
    URL https://lens.org/155-059-178-158-188
    Páginas 105-122
    Número 1
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  • Itinéraire de la différence dans les nouvelles de John Fante

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    Autor J. F. Beranger
    Fecha 1993
    URL https://lens.org/082-312-580-987-777
    Páginas 95-107
    Número 18
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  • John Fante : "Stranger in a Strange Land"

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    Autor Barbara Lanati
    Resumen Purchase online the PDF of John Fante, Lanati, Barbara - Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali ; Fabrizio Serra - Article
    Fecha 2006
    Idioma en
    Título corto John Fante
    Catálogo de biblioteca www.torrossa.com
    URL https://www.torrossa.com/en/resources/an/2236612
    Accedido 6/12/2022 6:20:18
    Adicional Publisher: Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali ; Fabrizio Serra
    Páginas 1000-1013
    Publicación John Fante
    DOI 10.1400/77044
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  • John Fante : a critical gathering

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    Autor Stephen Cooper
    Autor David M. Fine
    Resumen This book offers eleven essays on Fante's career, ranging from close thematic analysis of individual stories and novels to broadly informed assessments of Fante's life and art in the context of his times. Major areas explored in the book include Fante's treatment of the Italian-American experience; his relationship to other American writers of the 1930s and beyond; the deeply Catholic nature of Fante's fiction; his unique and still-seminal vision of Los Angeles; and his lifelong concern to render in fiction both the comedy and the horrors of the writing life.
    Fecha 1999
    URL https://lens.org/110-388-184-789-781
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  • John Fante : his novels and novellas

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    Autor Catherine J. Kordich
    Fecha 2000
    URL https://lens.org/154-885-859-303-043
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  • John Fante : l'Odissea 'italiana' di un "wop"

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    Autor Francesca Amoroso
    Fecha 2006
    URL https://lens.org/188-747-745-319-301
    Páginas 1000-1012
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  • John Fante & H.L. Mencken: a personal correspondence, 1930-1952

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    Fecha 1990-02-01
    URL https://lens.org/102-611-066-387-123
    Adicional Publisher: American Library Association
    Volumen 27
    Páginas 27-3179-27-3179
    Publicación Choice Reviews Online
    DOI 10.5860/choice.27-3179
    Número 6
    ISSN 00094978
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  • John Fante and his contribution to Italian-American fiction

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    Autor Emmy Oost
    Fecha 1998
    URL https://lens.org/125-413-863-867-346
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  • John Fante e la poetica del fallimento. Conflitti etnici e generazionali nella Los Angeles suburbana di My Dog Stupid

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    Autor Enrico Mariani
    Resumen The essay tries to offer different perspectives for the analysis of the least considered novel written by Italian American author John Fante, My Dog Stupid (1986). This autobiographical novel is the only one in Fante’s production that is set in the same period the author wrote it, the Los Angeles Sixties. After a brief introduction about the creative and editorial process of the novel, which has been published posthumous, the essay provides an inter-textual analysis of those Fante’s novels that deal with ethnic based father-son relationships. Therefore, the essay provides an overview of the cultural and social context of the Sixties in Los Angeles’ suburbs (including references to the Watts Riots and to the growing LA rock music) and investigates how this context is reflected in the novel. Finally, the essay tries to make a synthesis between two critical interpretations of the novel, Richard Collins’ ethnic based and nostalgic reading, and Emanuele Pettener’s humoristic based reading, highlighting the importance of humor, satire and irony in Fante’s narrative style.Keywords: Italian American Studies; John Fante; American Sixties; Los Angeles Suburbs; Literary Criticism
    URL https://lens.org/035-107-798-434-342
    Volumen 2
    Páginas 123-138
    DOI 10.13125/americacritica/3483
    Número 2
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  • John Fante e le donne ( La ricerca della felicità al femminile

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    Autor Lucia Cacciola
    Fecha 2011
    URL https://lens.org/149-024-001-349-184
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  • John Fante in the Library

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    Autor Stephen Cooper
    Fecha 2012
    Catálogo de biblioteca JSTOR
    URL https://www.jstor.org/stable/41440449
    Accedido 6/12/2022 6:19:54
    Adicional Publisher: Italian Americana
    Volumen 30
    Páginas 97-101
    Publicación Italian Americana
    Número 1
    ISSN 0096-8846
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  • John Fante o las uvas de la vida

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    Autor Luigi Giuliani
    Fecha 2006
    URL https://lens.org/000-700-814-158-577
    Páginas 39-43
    Número 272
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  • John Fante y las tabernas de la fe. Pesadumbre laboral y heroísmos ficcionales

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    Autor Fernando Mora Meléndez
    Resumen Examinar las creaciones artísticas en cuanto trabajo, así como la vida intelectual desde la perspectiva de sus transformaciones recientes, es el tema de conversación que proponen los ensayos de este libro. Ya sea mediante el análisis de obras o a través del aporte a los grandes debates teóricos, se consideran temas tan variados como los oficios de la creación, las figuraciones autorales, el impacto de las redes sociales o la economía de la atención. Considerando la génesis e historia del trabajo inmaterial o el presente de la universidad y la precarización del ejercicio investigativo, se discuten asuntos que atañen al mundo editorial, a la producción independiente, al mercado del arte y al péndulo que va de la explotación a la autoexplotación. Se trata de una obra que, en su propósito unitario, logra sumar aportes de diferentes tradiciones e ilumina una problemática que interesa a todos aquellos que se ocupan del acto de crear como profesión fundamental de la cultura.
    Fecha 2022
    URL https://lens.org/041-818-718-243-49X
    Adicional DOI: 10.17230/9789587208016ch3
    Editorial Editorial EAFIT
    Páginas 57-73
    Título del libro Pesadumbre laboral y heroísmos de ficción
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  • John Fante, Al oeste de la cultura obrera italoamericana

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    Autor Juan Arabia
    Resumen El desplazamiento realizado por los founding fathers de los Cultural Studies sobre los estudios literarios, influyó y dio lugar a concepciones más amplias y dialógicas de cultura. La literatura de John Fante —su particular “proyecto” y “formación” — en ese sentido, mediada por un determinado y específico momento histórico (crisis de los años 30, oleaje de inmigración masiva de la clase trabajadora, etcétera), permite vislumbrar ciertos elementos característicos de la cultura obrera ítaloamericana, sus específicas formas de resistencia y de oposición.
    Fecha 2014-01-01
    Idioma es
    Catálogo de biblioteca revista.latorredelvirrey.es
    URL https://revista.latorredelvirrey.es/LTV/article/view/707
    Accedido 6/12/2022 6:20:00
    Derechos Derechos de autor
    Adicional Number: 15, 2014/1
    Páginas 67-72
    Publicación La torre del Virrey
    Número 15, 2014/1
    ISSN 2255-2022
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    Fecha 2018-10-24
    URL https://lens.org/141-332-992-895-760
    Adicional DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv6wgd86.6
    Editorial University of South Carolina Press
    Páginas 5-7
    Título del libro Off the Books
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  • John Fante:

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    Autor Giovanna DiLello
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/188-894-443-551-500
    Adicional DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv102bj6q.13
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 177-192
    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • John Fante: A Life in the Works

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    Autor Emanuele Pettener
    Fecha 2014-01-01
    URL https://lens.org/166-758-422-375-70X
    Adicional Publisher: University of Illinois Press
    Volumen 4
    Páginas 74-76
    Publicación Italian American Review
    DOI 10.5406/italamerrevi.4.1.0074
    Número 1
    ISSN 05359120
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  • John Fante: A Literary Portrait

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    Autor Richard Collins
    Fecha 2000-01-05
    URL https://lens.org/037-750-077-383-472
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  • John Fante: Al oeste de la cultura obrera italoamericana

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    Autor Juan Arabia
    Fecha 2014
    URL https://lens.org/197-064-495-658-880
    Páginas 67-72
    Número 15
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  • John Fante: escribir desde el corazón

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    Autor Juan Arabia
    Fecha 2011
    URL https://lens.org/120-921-809-238-88X
    Páginas 64-66
    Número 31
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  • John Fante: Father of the Los Angeles School, neglected son of the Lost Generation

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    Autor Arjay Hinek
    Fecha 1996
    URL https://lens.org/098-570-451-159-505
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  • John Fante: His Novels and Novellas (review)

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    Autor Russell Harrison
    Fecha 2001-09-01
    URL https://lens.org/087-381-544-610-850
    Adicional Place: United States Publisher: Duke University Press
    Volumen 73
    Páginas 644-645
    Publicación American Literature
    DOI 10.1215/00029831-73-3-644
    Número 3
    ISSN 00029831
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  • John Fante: The Burden of Modernism and the Life of his Mind

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    Autor Jay Martin
    Resumen La tradition meditative parait centrale pour le processus createur a l'œuvre chez John Fante, modulant son engagement a la suite des grands auteurs modernistes. Ses recits melent deux courants discrets du modernisme. Auteur, non d'« autobiographies» mais de «fictions autobiographiques », il adopte pour theme essentiel une critique des illusions grotesques de la vie moderne. Sa formation aux pratiques devotionnelles du rite catholique romain et l'influence qu'eurent sur lui la tradition contemplative des Jesuites et les Exercices spirituels de St Ignace de Loyola paraissent cruciales pour une lecture informee de son œuvre.
    Fecha 1997
    URL https://lens.org/010-324-917-136-000
    Adicional Place: France Publisher: PERSEE Program
    Volumen 73
    Páginas 22-32
    Publicación Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines
    DOI 10.3406/rfea.1997.1694
    Número 1
    ISSN 03977870
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  • John fante: the passion that became a festival

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    Autor Giovanna DiLello
    Fecha 2020-12-31
    URL https://lens.org/091-553-573-827-808
    Adicional DOI: 10.1515/9780823287888-011
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 177-192
    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • John Fante. El escritor que Bukowski rescató.

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    Autor Javier Márquez
    Resumen Anagrama edita "Llenos de vida", una nueva obra de este autor estounidense que solo alcanzo la fama despues de su muerte, gracias a un lector muy especial.
    Fecha 2008
    URL https://lens.org/079-251-389-941-290
    Páginas 52-53
    Número 1922
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  • John Fante. Entre la niebla y el polvo

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    Autor Susana Gerbiez
    Resumen <jats:p>Juan ArabiaEditorial El fin de la noche. Buenos Aires, 2011</jats:p>
    Fecha 2018-08-13
    URL https://lens.org/003-895-191-666-090
    Adicional Place: Chile Publisher: Universidad Catolica Silva Henriquez
    Páginas 305-306
    Publicación Literatura y Lingüística
    DOI 10.29344/0717621x.25.1557
    Número 25
    ISSN 0717621x
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  • John Fante. Entre la niebla y el polvo

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    Autor Susana Gerbiez
    Fecha 2012
    URL https://lens.org/073-892-168-828-974
    Adicional Place: Chile Publisher: Universidad Catolica Silva Henriquez
    Páginas 300-300
    Publicación Literatura y lingüística
    DOI 10.4067/s0716-58112012000100015
    Número 25
    ISSN 07165811
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  • John Fante's 'Ask the Dust': A Border Reading

    Tipo de elemento Artículo de revista académica
    Autor Catherine J. Kordich
    Resumen In John Fante's 1939 novel Ask the Dust, protagonist Arturo Bandini struggles with the shifting agenda of a young man simultaneously reviling and reveling in his Italian-American upbringing and asserting himself as a participant in the California success ideal. Arturo does not seek out the embrace of Southern California's Italian community. Nor does he search for complete assimilation into the WASP mainstream. Instead, Arturo inhabits a borderland that encompasse multiple cultures, speaks in many idioms. Ask the Dust adroitly lends itself to a border reading with an eye fixed on the borders its characters traverse. Arturo is a twenty year old writer, newly arrived in Los Angeles and impatient for the fame and social success that a child of an immigrant bricklayer could not expect to enjoy in Boulder, Colorado. Living amongst the hordes of Midwestern WASPs, the sad and wary landladies, the alcoholic neighbors and tubercular taxi-dancers, he is drawn in by their miseries and sympathizes with their lots in life. But when Arturo is rejected by these people with the "same faces, the same set hard mouths from [his] hometown" (46) for his darker complexion and Italian ethnicity, his blood burns at their maliciousness, and he is satisfied that "they are old now, [and] dying in the sun..." (47). Arturo's already frantic search for cultural identity within this border matrix accelerates when he falls in love with a Chicana, an individual considered more "exotic" than he and with whom he inaugurates a painful relationship. Together Camilla Lopez and Arturo antagonize one another with racial epithets and personal insults: Camilla's cruel jabs aimed at his sexual inexperience combat Arturo's remarkably truculent racial slurs. Clearly, the couple's problems are not limited to manifest ethnic tension, but it is the idiom and the hierarchy of cultures that ignites/propels their alliance within the Los Angeles border community. Their ethnic identities comprise many features simultaneously, take on different masques in variant contexts, and converse in multiple codes. Thus, Arturo and Camilla illustrate the experience of what critic D. Emily Hicks, in her book Border Theory: The Multidimensional Text, has termed border consciousness. Border consciousness is the consequence of living in a region where more than one culture is salient, a situation that endows the border resident with the ability to operate within and between different cultures and socio-economic demarcations simultaneously: that is, a border resident crosses borders. Hicks argues that a border community is composed of multitudinous cultures and therefore is dynamic, constantly in flux and "produc[ing] an interaction between the connotative matrices of an object in more than one culture" (xxix). She uses the schematic definition of a holographic image to communicate a model of the border condition. Since a hologram is composed of a frequency of images identifiable from multiple vantage points, it serves as a kind of synedoche: "In the same way that one part of a hologram can produce an entire image, the border metaphor is able to reproduce the whole culture to which it refers" (xxix). This "whole in its fragmentation" feature of border theory will be especially provident when we examine the physical artifacts of Camilla Lopez's room in search of a reading of her self-expression later in our study. To participate in border theorization, one must recognize the writing and reading of border literature as an act of constant border crossing, necessarily avoiding a single perspective. Obviously the challenges these traversals present to one's cultural literacy overwhelm a monocultural paradigm. However, border literature does not exclude the monolithic definitions of "culture"; "culture" is included in the border paradigm along with its brethren of cultural experiences: regional alliance, girl talk, historical traditions, zoot suits, power suits. The border residents of Depression-era L. …
    Fecha 1995
    URL https://lens.org/048-088-340-258-982
    Adicional Place: United States Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
    Volumen 20
    Páginas 17
    Publicación MELUS
    DOI 10.2307/467887
    Número 4
    ISSN 0163755x
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  • John Fante's "Kunstlerroman" : (Re)Writing and Trascending the Inner City in "Ask the Dust"

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    Autor Jessica Maucione
    Fecha 2006
    URL https://lens.org/039-287-571-062-966
    Páginas 1000-1016
    Número 6
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  • John Fante's Arturo Bandini A Study of Character

    Tipo de elemento Tesis
    Autor Rasmus Sørheim Eriksen
    Resumen This thesis aims to conduct a characterological study of John Fante’s protagonist Arturo Bandini from the two novels Wait Until Spring, Bandini and The Road to Los Angeles. Through an analysis of the narrative technique in the novels and an application of characterization theory, the goal is to describe Arturo Bandini as accurately as possible. The thesis argues that the character is multifaceted and interesting and that extensive comparisons with his creator are not required in order to understand Arturo. The theoretical approach in this thesis is two-fold, inferring character based on characterization theory on the one hand and narrative technique on the other. Through an analysis of the narrator’s role in the narrative, much of the characteristic features of Arturo are revealed to the reader. In addition to this, an analysis of the character through direct definition and indirect presentation portrays the protagonist’s traits in the story. This characterological study, then, will put emphasis on the narrative point of view and the establishing of character in the story, both of which will combine to create a coherent and accurate description of Arturo. Through the analysis, this thesis demonstrates Arturo’s struggles to become integrated in American society. It is his dream to assimilate completely and to rid himself of his Italian heritage. In the process, Arturo embodies the story of an immigrant’s struggle to pursue the American Dream. The toils and hardships of immigrants are described through the Bandini character in an agonizing journey from young boy through adolescence. This journey reveals a vivid character with moral ambiguities and an intensely felt emotional existence.
    Fecha 2013
    URL https://lens.org/120-607-944-906-734
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust

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    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/021-731-291-253-72X
    Adicional DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv102bj6q
    Editorial Fordham University Press
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust

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    Resumen <p>Eight decades after <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> first appeared, <italic>John Fante’s Ask the Dust: A Joining of Voices and Views</italic> shows how and why the once-forgotten novel continues to earn its place among the signal works of twentieth-century world literature in our own moment of the twenty-first. Gathered here are twenty responses to the novel from a wide variety of contributors, both American and Italian, including scholars, journalists, filmmakers, creative writers, translators, archive workers, a musicologist, a choreographer, and an American Indian who discovered the book while incarcerated in a California maximum-security prison. In recognizing the novel’s enduring attractions and evolving critical challenges, editors Cooper and Donato have orchestrated the volume’s contents to address both academic audiences and the countless word-of-mouth fans who have made <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> a perennial international classic. With its array of essays, interviews, talks, memoirs, and correspondence—including an important letter by Fante, newly discovered and published here for the first time—the volume raises Fante studies to a commanding level of significance through its diversity of perspectives on the cornerstone of the author’s oeuvre. Italian American to its core, the picaresque brio of <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> resonates all the more profoundly today as readers debate, reinterpret, and embrace the abiding truths of Arturo Bandini’s struggle with immigrant dreams, ethnic tensions, romantic love, existential demons, and the better angels of his inherited Catholic faith against the backdrop of that “sad flower in the sand,” the Depression-era city of Los Angeles.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/042-403-885-426-084
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.001.0001
    Editorial Fordham University Press
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust

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    Fecha 2020-06-22
    URL https://lens.org/080-370-399-324-584
    Adicional DOI: 10.1515/9780823287888
    Editorial Fordham University Press
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - “A Ramona in reverse”: writing the madness of the Spanish past in ask the dust

    Tipo de elemento Sección de un libro
    Autor Daniel Gardner
    Resumen <p>At the turn of the twentieth century, real estate boosters seeking to promote southern California drew upon the national popularity of Helen Hunt Jackson’s 1884 novel <italic>Ramona</italic>, in particular its fantasy of the Spanish past. The fantasy’s colonial discourse deployed stereotypes marked by an ambivalence that romanticized “going Spanish” even as it portrayed Mexican communities as burdens necessitating subjugation through various strategies including repatriation. John Fante’s <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> (1939) repudiates the stereotype of the colonial fantasy by critically mimicking the Spanish past. By reversing the discourse of <italic>Ramona, Ask the Dust</italic> exposes the imperialist nostalgia of the fantasy, recognizes the instability of the regional sense of colonial authority, protests the racial injustice of the discourse, and recuperates the voice of the Other that the fantasy seeks to silence.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/027-532-641-001-220
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0005
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 83-108
    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - “My dear bukowski,” “hello john fante”: preface to ask the dust

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    Autor John Fante
    Autor Charles Bukowski
    Resumen <p>This chapter reproduces two letters, first the one that John Fante sent to Charles Bukowski in January 1979 thanking him in advance for agreeing to write a preface to the forthcoming reissue of <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> by Black Sparrow Press, and then the one that Bukowski sent Fante in response the following month. The letters are followed by the original typescript of Bukowski’s now-famous Preface, which helped revive Fante’s novel after four decades in out-of-print oblivion.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/032-650-936-228-228
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0017
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 261-270
    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - “Sad flower in the sand”: Camilla Lopez and the erasure of memory in ask the dust

    Tipo de elemento Sección de un libro
    Autor Meagan Meylor
    Resumen <p>While scholars of <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> have given considerable attention to the novel’s protagonist Arturo Bandini, his Mexican American love interest Camilla Lopez has been relatively neglected. Scholarship concerning Camilla has been limited to her destructive relationship with Arturo and her attempts at adopting Hollywood values. By foregrounding the figure of Camilla through the socio-historical lens of the marginalization and deportation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans during the 1930s, this chapter offers important insights into Fante’s novel, most notably in its treatment of ethnic identities within Los Angeles. It also provides a feminist reading of <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> by examining Fante’s treatment of working-class female subjectivity and of how Camilla’s recurring presence and absence draw attention to the Mexican past of Los Angeles, a history often erased in the city’s collective memory.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/092-224-667-065-807
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0004
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 58-82
    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - Amid the dust

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    Autor Miriam Amico
    Resumen <p>“Amidst the Dust” pays homage to the author’s personal experience conducting research for her MA thesis on Italian-American writer John Fante. Her two months spent in Los Angeles—the city where Fante set many of his literary works—were crucial to developing a richer understanding of Fante’s perception of his identity as a son of Italian immigrants. The essay focuses on the trove of treasures archived in the John Fante papers at UCLA Library Special Collections, detailing daily encounters with manuscripts and personal notes, and reflecting on the nature of ethnic identity while drawing parallels between Fante’s experiences (and those of his characters) and her own journey.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/008-003-107-229-791
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0010
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 167-176
    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - Dancing with the dust: translating ask the dust to the stage

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    Autor J’aime Morrison
    Resumen <p>This essay reconstructs the process of creating <italic>DUST</italic>, an original dance-theatre adaptation of John Fante’s novel <italic>Ask the Dust</italic>. The essay details the director’s work with student actors, faculty designers, and production team, and explores the methods used in the process of devising this adaptation. The performative relationship between movement and language, words and choreography, is emphasized throughout. Character analysis focusing on the tangled histories of Camilla and Arturo as outsiders suggests the persistence of loss that attends the experience of displacement caused by emigration, exile, and other such dislocations. The writing in the essay seeks to replicate the imaginative process of creating an embodied translation of this haunting novel.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/043-219-376-721-524
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0006
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 111-126
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - Don’t ask the french

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    Autor Philippe Garnier
    Resumen <p>This is a personal account by someone who witnessed firsthand, and himself had a hand in, John Fante's extraordinary popularity in France in the late 1980s. Before being rediscovered by Charles Bukowski and Black Sparrow Press, Fante’s neglect in his own country for over forty years had a lot to do with French enthusiasm for his work. Identification with Fante's alter ego Bandini was instrumental as well, but a rather similar character (a struggling and starving young artist) in another, earlier, novel which had an undeniable influence on <italic>Ask the Dust</italic>—Knut Hamsun's <italic>Hunger</italic>—never stirred as big an emotional response with the French, possibly because Hamsun was extremely well-known not only in his own country but also everywhere else in Europe. The French never like success, but instead love to embrace artists they perceive, rightly or wrongly, as <italic>maudits</italic>—doomed to oblivion at home.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/069-691-932-733-036
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0009
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 157-164
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - From family to institutional memory: a conversation with Stephen cooper

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    Autor Teresa Fiore
    Resumen <p>This conversation with Fante’s biographer revolves around the complex acquisition trajectory of John Fante’s papers (manuscripts, letters, business records) and memorabilia (his typewriter, a lock of hair, etc.). Their transfer in 2009 from the writer’s family to the institutional space of UCLA Library Special Collections represented Fante’s entry into that very world of immortality he had unabashedly pined for, along with his literary alter ego Arturo Bandini. The conversation contributes to the debates on archives as repositories of past and future knowledge and on private versus public memory.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/153-339-877-385-826
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0018
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 273-280
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - From the particular to the universal: Vittorini’s Italian adaptation of ask the dust

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    Autor Valerio Ferme
    Resumen <p>This essay investigates Vittorini’s translation of Fante’s <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> into Italian as <italic>Il cammino nella polvere</italic> and the reasons why Vittorini decided to translate the Italian-American author at a time (1941) when Fascism’s rhetoric was becoming increasingly anti-American. With the help of theories of intercultural translation, Ferme evinces the choices Vittorini made in translating <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> and his tendency to move away from particular emotions toward abstraction and universal values. Transforming Fante’s original into an Italian version marked by strategic omissions and full rewritings, Vittorini made the work a key part of his ‘grand’ project of using new ethnic American writers like Fante to exemplify the <italic>mondo offeso</italic> (injured world) of the 1930s and 1940s. Ferme’s analysis illuminates the impact that Fante’s work had on a generation of Italian writers fighting fascist censorship and repression.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/066-454-688-147-757
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0002
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 15-42
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - Goodbye, bunker hill

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    Autor John Fante
    Resumen <p>Written soon after <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> appeared in late 1939, this little-known piece of non-fiction by John Fante appeared in the <italic>Los Angeles Times</italic>. In it, Fante reminisces about his early days in Los Angeles, those days in the early 1930s when he was young and broke and often hungry but filled with dreams of literary greatness. He presents a gallery of character sketches of the people he lived amidst, from the drunk who lived next door in Fante’s beloved Bunker Hill rooming house to the generous Japanese grocer at Grand Central Market. Filled with feeling for a lost time and cherished memories, this piece reveals a side of John Fante that will captivate readers who want to learn more about the author of <italic>Ask the Dust</italic>.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/130-164-783-696-352
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0020
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 290-295
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - How Hitler nearly destroyed the great American novel

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    Autor Ryan Holiday
    Resumen <p>Investigative journalist Holiday scrutinizes the archival record to clarify the collision of historical forces that long haunted the trajectory of <italic>Ask the Dust</italic>. Informed by primary research into the John Fante papers at UCLA Library Special Collections and beyond, this essay explains how in falling victim to political pressures of the Second World War, the novel gains significance that remains relevant to our own age today. Before Mussolini’s fascist censors targeted Fante’s writings, agents of Adolf Hitler were hijacking the attention of Fante’s editor and draining the assets of his publisher for releasing an unauthorized, unexpurgated edition of the dictator’s notorious <italic>Mein Kampf</italic> in a legal case that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court. The issues involved in that case and their effects upon <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> teach us as much about Fante’s day and age as about our own era of alt-right provocateurship and #atnoplatform.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/004-598-377-114-476
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0014
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 213-234
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - I had bandini: reading ask the dust in prison

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    Autor Joel Williams
    Resumen <p>Williams recounts the true story of how he was well into his third decade of a 27-year-to-life prison sentence for murder when he discovered <italic>Ask the Dust</italic>. The gritty-poetic voice of the novel and its tragicomic treatment of the struggles of Arturo and Camila spoke so directly to him that his love of reading grew into a need to write, and he set to work crafting his own short stories. A serendipitous encounter with a visitor who put him in contact with Fante biographer Stephen Cooper turned into a long and transformative correspondence, mentorship, and friendship. The results: a book of short stories in French translation entitled <italic>Du sang dans les plumes</italic>, brought out in 2012 by the Paris publisher 13E Note Editions; and then, after 28 years behind bars, parole and freedom.</p>
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    URL https://lens.org/049-577-432-742-695
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0012
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 193-200
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - Interview with Robert Towne

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    Autor Nathan Rabin
    Resumen <p>In this interview, legendary Hollywood screenwriter Robert Towne explains how discovering <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> influenced his writing. The novel’s depiction of 1930s Los Angeles and the era-specific dialogue of its characters helped inform his writing of the Academy Award-winning screenplay for <italic>Chinatown</italic> (1974). Wishing to go on and adapt <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> to the screen—a process that would end up taking decades—the young Towne sought out the novel’s aging, ill, and irascible Fante, earning a hard-won friendship that in his own advancing years Towne recalls with affection.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/139-329-734-944-68X
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0015
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 237-244
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - John fante: the passion that became a festival

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    Autor Giovanna DiLello
    Resumen <p>The John Fante Festival “Il dio di mio padre” started in 2006 in Torricella Peligna, a small town in the Maiella mountains of Italy’s Abruzzo province, where John Fante’s father Nick Fante was born. After making a 2003 documentary film about John Fante, Giovanna Di Lello founded and still directs the festival, which is organized by the municipality. In this essay the author explains her passion for John Fante and how over the years the festival has become a reference point for Fante enthusiasts around the world, featuring numerous writers, musicians, artists, and scholars from Italy, the United States, and elsewhere who come to pay homage to Fante and his works through lectures, concerts, and readings.</p>
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    URL https://lens.org/048-548-983-523-764
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0011
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 177-192
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - Letters from los angeles

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    Autor Jan Louter
    Resumen <p>In this series of letters written to a friend back home in the Netherlands, Dutch filmmaker Jan Louter describes the time he spent in Los Angeles making his 2001 documentary <italic>A Sad Flower in the Sand</italic>. Equal parts meditation on <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> and impressionistic travelogue throughout the city and as far afield as the Mojave Desert, the letters give voice to Louter’s deep appreciation of John Fante’s art. Rich with sketches of such other important people in the Fante orbit as John’s wife Joyce, their son Dan Fante, and screenwriter Robert Towne, the writing in these letters conveys a penetrating European perspective on Fante’s masterpiece and a profound sympathy for its wounded author.</p>
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    URL https://lens.org/185-659-404-355-276
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0016
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 245-260
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - Prelude to “prologue to ask the dust”

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    Autor Stephen Cooper
    Resumen <p>In this talk, delivered at the 2014 California State University, Long Beach, symposium celebrating the 75th anniversary of the publication of <italic>Ask the Dust</italic>, Cooper recounts the story of how he came to discover a remarkable letter, to that point unknown, written by John Fante in 1933. Addressed to fellow Italian American writer Jo Pagano, who like Fante had ventured west from Colorado to seek writing success in Los Angeles, the letter provides insight into the crippling doubts and frustrations that burdened the young Fante even as it reveals his deep-seated confidence that he would one day write a great novel. Published here for the first time, this letter prefigures another remarkable Fante letter, the one written in 1938 that is now known as the Prologue to <italic>Ask the Dust</italic>.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/054-298-835-623-155
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0019
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 281-289
    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - The road to john fante’s los angeles

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    Autor Stephen Cooper
    Resumen <p>Originally offered as the 2011 Endowed Bonnie Cashin Memorial Lecture at UCLA Library Special Collections, this talk consists of two parts: an overview of John Fante’s life and times, and a behind-the-scenes account of the work Cooper did in researching his biography of Fante. Confiding to his audience that any biography is to some degree autobiographical, Cooper tells of his own youthful infatuation with <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> and how that feeling developed into the central project of his professional life both as a writer and a teacher. The revised version of the talk that is presented here leads up to the disclosure of a mystery surrounding the John Fante papers, a mystery that persists to this day.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/066-483-494-251-524
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0021
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 296-314
    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - Watch out or you’ll wind up in my novel: the lost world of ask the dust

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    Autor Robert Guffey
    Resumen <p>This essay analyzes the influence of John Fante's 1939 novel <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> on recent works of fiction such as Noah Van Sciver's 2015 graphic novel <italic>Fante Bukowski</italic>. It also explores the influence of such Fante's predecessors as James Branch Cabell, author of <italic>Jurgen</italic>, on Fante's own fiction, focusing particularly on Fante’s early short story “To Be a Monstrous Fellow.” Key authors of Los Angeles fiction, from L. Frank Baum (<italic>The Wizard of Oz</italic>) to Steve Erickson (<italic>Days Between Stations</italic>), are juxtaposed with Fante and his unique literary interpretation of southern California as presented in <italic>Ask the Dust</italic>.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/044-855-183-405-553
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0008
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 145-156
    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - Where spirituality ebbs and flows: religion and diasporic alienation in ask the dust

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    Autor Suzanne Manizza Roszak
    Resumen <p>In recent scholarship on the work of John Fante, issues of spirituality and the sacred have not been a popular emphasis. Yet in <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> spirituality is intrinsically tied to representations of the Italian diasporic experience in the United States, including social alienation and selective accommodation, two key concepts in diaspora theory. Despite his self-professed Americanism, Fante’s protagonist Arturo Bandini faces alienation by members of Los Angeles’s white majority, and he hesitates to adopt entirely the social mores of this culture into which he has thrust himself. The ensuing ebb and flow of his spirituality becomes a barometer of both of these experiences. Bandini’s skepticism about organized religion and even the existence of God marks his attempts to shake off his Italian cultural inheritance and accommodate the norms of secular, consumerist America. At the same time, he exhibits almost violent bursts of investment and pride in Catholic doctrine and culture that indicate the depth of his alienation in 1930s Los Angeles. Tracing this ebb and flow of investment in the sacred allows us to reach a more nuanced understanding of both the novel and the Italian diasporic experience in the United States.</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/142-672-457-733-177
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0003
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 43-57
    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust - Writing in the dust

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    Autor Alan Rifkin
    Resumen <p>In this elegant and insightful piece of literary journalism, Alan Rifkin offers a sweeping account of how John Fante’s <italic>Ask the Dust</italic> has come to be a touchstone among contemporary writers in Los Angeles and southern California and a wellspring of the region’s literature. Combining his own personal journey as a writer of fiction and non-fiction with a survey of the works of such authors as Steve Erickson, Carolyn See, Joan Didion, Salvador Plascencia, Kate Braverman, and others, Rifkin traces a line connecting all of them to Fante’s signature work and its dreamlike image of the metropolis: “Every Los Angeles writer at the outskirts of vision feels a connection to <italic>Ask the Dust</italic>, the 1939 novel that, more than any other, seems to weep over this city’s corpse in the ecstasy of possessing it.”</p>
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/094-998-529-493-59X
    Adicional DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823287864.003.0013
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 201-212
    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust and Fictions of Whiteness

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    Autor Matthew Elliott
    Resumen "I could never become one of them," Arturo Bandini declares at the end of Robert Towne's 2006 film version ofjohn Fante's 1939 novel Ask the Dust. Speaking here of his relationship to mainstream white American culture, Fante's Italian American protagonist proclaims his antiassimilationist sentiments. He will forever be a man of the margins, he insists, faithful to his memories of discrimination by the likes of "Smith and Parker and Jones," while also declaring himself, as a writer, a champion of all those he has come to know who have shared in such experiences. Although the film version strategically repositions these words, moving this speech to the end of the story for emphasis, its sentiments remain in keeping with the critical consensus on the novel. Although he finds the possibility of assimilation alluring for a period, ultimately Arturo "can only align himself against Anglo[s]" (79), as Katherine Kordich concludes, rediscovers his "feral ethnic self," as Kenneth Scambray sees it (119), and, finally, argues Jessica Maucione, "retains [his] Italianness by resisting and overcoming assimilative values and desires" (101). Arturo not only rediscovers "his own status as alien and outsider" (137), as Richard Collins suggests, but also locates himself with others who have experienced exclusion: "he and they would never become insiders, not in Los Angeles, not in California, not in America, not in the world" (139). Ask the Dust offers considerable support for this widely accepted view of Fante's protagonist. Indeed, Arturo's apparent reconnection with the margins is the emotional crux of his narrative, and is perhaps all the more compelling for its contrast to the earlier moments when he echoes the discriminatory rhetoric once directed at him, reflecting what Donald Weber argues is the ethnic self-hatred that most critics see him overcoming in the end (69-71) (1). In this essay, however, I challenge these readings of the novel and their assessment of Arturo's ethnoracial position in particular. My argument proceeds from two assumptions that differ from the prevailing critical views. First, I contend that Arturo Bandini remains an unreliable narrator even at the end of the novel. Like Nick Carraway's in The Great Gatsby, his contradictions and evasions require careful scrutiny, despite the eloquent culmination of his narrative. Second, I distinguish between Arturo's ethnic feeling and the fact of his shifting ethnoracial and socioeconomic position.To use Thomas Ferraro's phrase, Arturo comes to "feel Italian" at the end of the novel, which in his case means identifying with those who suffer from ethnic or racial discrimination as he once did (2). Yet, such sentiments do not always translate into antihegemonic ideology, and Arturo Bandini provides a case in point for this distinction. Even as he articulates an increasing emotional connection to the margins, his narrative suggests that in fundamental ways he begins to define himself through racial terms that both enable his own assimilation into the mainstream and separate him from the very outsiders of whom he speaks and writes so eloquently. Thus, contrary to his own claims and the many critics who accept them, I argue that Ask the Dust is less the story of Arturo Bandini's ethnic rediscovery than of his racial refashioning. His tale, in fact, provides a compelling illustration of what Matthew Frye Jacobson calls the "racial alchemy" of the melting pot, whereby certain groups assimilate into the mainstream of American culture by becoming white (7). As several critics have noted, Arturo reflects what whiteness studies scholars have dubbed the "in-between" or "middle-ground" racial status of Italian Americans in the first half of the twentieth century (3). I contend, though, that this middle ground marks only the starting point of Arturo's racial journey in the novel. Beyond the initial efforts to gain acceptance that others have noted, he begins to deeply internalize the idea of his racial whiteness. …
    Fecha 2010
    URL https://lens.org/006-497-213-888-838
    Adicional Place: United States Publisher: Duke University Press
    Volumen 56
    Páginas 530-544
    Publicación Twentieth-Century Literature
    DOI 10.1215/0041462x-2010-1007
    Número 4
    ISSN 0041462x
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust: A Joining of Voices and Views

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    Autor Steven Belluscio
    Fecha 2021-01-01
    URL https://lens.org/015-666-902-905-219
    Adicional Publisher: University of Illinois Press
    Volumen 11
    Páginas 74-77
    Publicación Italian American Review
    DOI 10.5406/italamerrevi.11.1.0074
    Número 1
    ISSN 05359120
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    Autor Stephen Cooper
    Autor Clorinda Donato
    Autor Miriam Amico
    Autor Charles Bukowski
    Autor Giovanna Di Lello
    Fecha 2020-07-02
    URL https://lens.org/187-481-361-301-397
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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust: A Joining of Voices and Views ed. by Stephen Cooper and Clorinda Donato

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    Autor Michael Docherty
    Fecha 2021
    URL https://lens.org/104-072-349-953-036
    Adicional Publisher: Project Muse
    Volumen 28
    Páginas 594-596
    Publicación Modernism/modernity
    DOI 10.1353/mod.2021.0047
    Número 3
    ISSN 10806601
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  • John Fante’s Ask the Dust A Joining of Voices and Views. Eds. Stephen Cooper and Clorinda Donato

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    Autor Elisa Bordin
    URL https://lens.org/014-312-915-836-932
    DOI 10.13136/2281-4582/2020.i15.419
    Número 15
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  • L'esperienza migratoria degli italiani negli Stati Uniti come "architesto": muratori e scrittori nelle opere di John Fante

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    Autor Teresa Fiore
    Fecha 2011
    URL https://lens.org/152-890-522-768-471
    Volumen 8
    Páginas 339-358
    Número 2
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  • L'etnicità feticcio nella fortuna italiana di John Fante

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    Autor Martino Marazzi
    Fecha 2006
    URL https://lens.org/107-000-089-170-284
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  • L'expression du mépris de soi dans l'oeuvre de John Fante

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    Autor Sophie Denave
    Fecha 2011-09-25
    URL https://lens.org/135-211-397-058-572
    Páginas 39-77
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  • La cité rêvée et l'agon du héros chez Wolfe, Fante et Kerouac

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    Autor Amélie Moisy
    Resumen Thomas Wolfe, John Fante, et Jack Kerouac présentent de jeunes héros provinciaux pour qui la cité est cet idéal qui remonte à Aristote, offrant à l’homme la meilleure vie possible. Dans Of Time and the River (Le Temps et le fleuve, 1935), Ask the Dust (Demande à la poussière, 1939), et The Town and the City (Avant la route, 1950), ces jeunes gens se livrent à des affrontements avec New York et Los Angeles. Ces romans illustrent le conflit et la résistance plus souvent que la réalisation des rêves, car la ville résiste aux protagonistes, et leurs débordements rappellent les héros primitifs, que leur force mâle pousse à l’excellence. Après leur quête de reconnaissance dans la ville, ils évoluent vers d’autres types de héros – l’artiste, l’amant, le sage. Ces trois œuvres, représentatives d’une évolution du roman de la ville et du roman de formation, témoignent finalement, non sans ambivalence, de la valeur de la ville dans la construction de l’identité.
    Fecha 2018
    URL https://lens.org/095-448-448-093-893
    Adicional DOI: 10.4000/books.pufc.41592
    Editorial Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté
    Páginas 219-234
    Título del libro Regards croisés sur la ville américaine
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  • "La hermandad de la uva", de John Fante

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    Autor Juan Manuel Gómez
    Fecha 2004
    URL https://lens.org/026-332-581-626-794
    Volumen 6
    Páginas 92-96
    Número 71
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  • La leyenda: Un escritor perdido en Hollywood.

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    Autor Philipp Engel
    Resumen "Buenos principios" es la ultima adaptacion de una novela de John Fante, un escritor que nunca llevo demasiado bien estar a sueldo de Hollywood. Hubiese preferido vivir de su literatura.
    Fecha 2019
    URL https://lens.org/053-318-330-126-232
    Páginas 24-24
    Número 290
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  • La poètica de la tendresa de John Fante

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    Autor Damià Alou
    Fecha 2016
    URL https://lens.org/005-030-684-832-026
    Páginas 47
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  • La strada per l'America : John Fante nella letteratura statunitense

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    Autor Gianni Paoletti
    Fecha 2006
    URL https://lens.org/197-028-903-634-397
    Páginas 1000-1013
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  • La última página : California dream: cara y cruz del sueño americano

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    Autor Laura Manzanera
    Resumen Un viaje al "California dream" al hilo de la aparicion de una biografia de John Fante, de Eduardo Margaretto. El escritor italoamericano fue uno de los muchos que quiso ver Eldorado a orillas del Pacifico.
    Fecha 2014
    URL https://lens.org/152-544-934-752-36X
    Páginas 98
    Número 155
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  • Les migrants italiens dans le Colorado. Une vision d’après Wait Until Spring, Bandini de John Fante

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    Autor Marie-Christine Michaud
    Resumen L’immigration italienne aux États-Unis à la fin du xixe siècle est avant tout un mouvement d’hommes sans qualification à la recherche d’emplois. Ainsi, l’immigration suit le schéma de l’industrialisation du pays, ce qui conduit les migrants à s’installer le plus souvent dans les villes industrielles de la côte Est. Toutefois, un certain nombre d’Italiens poussent jusque dans les états de l’Ouest américain à la recherche d’autres opportunités d’emploi et de conditions de vie meilleures, espère..
    Fecha 2016
    URL https://lens.org/037-014-172-680-365
    Adicional DOI: 10.4000/books.pur.42349
    Editorial Presses universitaires de Rennes
    Páginas 305-318
    Título del libro L'Ouest et les Amériques
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  • Making Fante one of the boys (and girls) : the cyclical structure of Ask the dust and how it argues for John Fante's acceptance into the American literary canon.

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    Autor Charlotte. Fressilli
    Fecha 2015
    URL https://lens.org/001-229-891-937-309
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  • Masculinity in John Fante's Wait Until Spring,

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    Autor Rocco Marinacelo
    Fecha 2016
    URL https://lens.org/129-651-987-119-744
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    Autor John Fante
    Autor Charles Bukowski
    Fecha 2020-04-07
    URL https://lens.org/023-772-145-622-13X
    Adicional DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv102bj6q.19
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 261-270
    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • "My dear bukowski," "hello john fante": preface to ask the dust

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    Autor John Fante
    Autor Charles Bukowski
    Fecha 2020-12-31
    URL https://lens.org/065-806-772-397-871
    Adicional DOI: 10.1515/9780823287888-017
    Editorial Fordham University Press
    Páginas 261-270
    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • Nostalgia in John Fante’s ‘Home Sweet Home’

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    Autor Francesca D'Alfonso
    Fecha 2018
    URL https://lens.org/103-344-137-127-584
    Páginas 71-92
    Número 16
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  • O fluxo da consciência em Ask the dust, de John Fante

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    Autor Heloiza Biazotti Vieira
    Fecha 2015-11-27
    URL https://lens.org/025-135-773-847-373
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  • "Oh for a Mexican girl!": The limits of literature in John Fante's Ask the Dust

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    Autor Charles Scruggs
    Fecha 2003
    URL https://lens.org/033-462-900-607-443
    Adicional Publisher: Project Muse
    Volumen 38
    Páginas 228-245
    Publicación Western American Literature
    DOI 10.1353/wal.2003.0067
    Número 3
    ISSN 19487142
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  • Oltreuomo Bandini. Le avventure letterarie di “Sua maestà l’Io”

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    Autor Katarzyna Woźniak
    Resumen Nel 1908 Sigmunt Freud parlo di un particolare tipo di approccio alla scrittura, in cui il principio creativo era sottoposto alle leggi di “Sua maesta l’Io”. La proposta di Freud sembra una risposta efficace alla domanda sui motivi della straordinaria fortuna della letteratura di massa, ossia dei bestseller costruiti secondo uno schema narrativo di matrice fiabesca, dove il protagonista, di solito e un eroe o un’eroina senza peccato. Nel nostro saggio illustreremo questo meccanismo sull’esempio di Arturo Bandini, il personaggio di spicco della narrativa dello scrittore e sceneggiatore italo-americano John Fante. Nadczlowiek Bandini. Literackie przygody „Jej Wysokości Ego” W 1908 w pismach Sigmunda Freuda pojawia sie zagadnienie szczegolnego typu podejścia do tworczości literackiej, podporządkowanego prawom „Jej Wysokości Ego”. Propozycja Freuda zdaje sie skuteczną odpowiedzią na pytanie o przyczyny nadzwyczajnej popularności literatury masowej, czyli bestsellerow tworzonych w oparciu o schemat baśni. W artykule autorka podejmuje probe zilustrowania tego mechanizmu na przykladzie Artura Bandiniego, bohatera prozy Johna Fantego.
    Fecha 2018-07-05
    URL https://lens.org/025-355-338-388-920
    Adicional Publisher: The Pedagogical University of Cracow/Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie
    Volumen 9
    Páginas 228-235
    Publicación Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis | Studia de Cultura
    DOI 10.24917/20837275.9.3.21
    Número 3
    ISSN 23914432
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  • Perguntas ao pó: marcas da história estadunidense em Ask the Dust, de John Fante

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    Autor Lucas Amorim dos Santos
    Fecha 2022-10-06
    URL https://lens.org/169-541-378-512-376
    Adicional DOI: 10.11606/d.8.2022.tde-06102022-140150
    Universidad Universidade de Sao Paulo, Agencia USP de Gestao da Informacao Academica (AGUIA)
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  • Pergunte ao pó, de John Fante, e o “sonho americano” dos imigrantes

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    Autor Douglas Ceccagno
    Resumen Many of the characters in the novel Ask the dust, by John Fante, are migrants and immigrants in search of the American dream. his article examines how the writer Arturo Bandini, first-person narrator of the novel, at first, identifies himself with the values of American culture, but, at last, builds his literary voice based on his relationship with those who live in the margins of the national identity. This article makes use mainly of sources from American history and from Antonio Candido’s statements on the place of writer in society.
    Fecha 2017-01-27
    URL https://lens.org/049-242-515-915-059
    Adicional Place: Brazil Publisher: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
    Volumen 70
    Páginas 51-59
    Publicación Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies
    DOI 10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n1p51
    Número 1
    ISSN 21758026
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  • “Piccoli filippini come eroi: declino e riscatto nella società multiculturale di John Fante”

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    Autor Tania Zulli
    Fecha 2007
    URL https://lens.org/107-432-212-318-459
    Páginas 95-120
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  • Reseña de "John Fante. Entre la niebla y el polvo" de Juan Arabia

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    Autor Susana Gerbiez
    Fecha 2012
    URL https://lens.org/159-499-779-502-866
    Páginas 305-306
    Número 25
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  • Review of Ask the Dust by John Fante

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    Autor Dunja Nedic
    Fecha 2013-05-07
    URL https://lens.org/004-488-112-649-128
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  • Review: John Fante: A Critical Gathering

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    Autor Joseph Dinunzio
    Fecha 2001-08-01
    URL https://lens.org/046-007-711-298-01X
    Adicional Place: United Kingdom Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
    Volumen 52
    Páginas 477-479
    Publicación The Review of English Studies
    DOI 10.1093/res/52.207.477
    Número 207
    ISSN 00346551
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  • Rome If You Want to: The Currency of John Fante's Italy

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    Autor Dennis Barone
    Resumen Sociologist Robert Orsi has described how Italian immigrants invented a homeland that never existed and used this invention as a fantasy to assuage their pain and as a stick to discipline their children. John Fante's fiction illustrates this pattern. In his first published novel, Wait Until Spring, Bandini, for example, the protagonist's grandmother condemns the United States and praises the values of her homeland while in the late novella My Dog Stupid Italy represents a sanctuary for the protagonist. When Fante journeyed to Italy his letters home demonstrate how important these trips were to him. Other Italian American authors such as Jerre Mangione, Helen Barolini, Jospeh Papaleo, and Maria Laurino have explored the contrast between Italy and America, have described the homeland as a paradise or as a cruel discipline. Fante's writing changes over time from depicting Italy as strap to Italy as sanctuary, from being driven from the homeland to being drawn to it. This shift demonstrates that the manufactu...
    Fecha 2003
    URL https://lens.org/037-351-592-013-275
    Adicional Place: United States Publisher: SAGE Publications
    Volumen 37
    Páginas 436-453
    Publicación Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies
    DOI 10.1177/001458580303700207
    Número 2
    ISSN 00145858
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  • Salma Hayek. "Ahora entiendo que el amor no se rige por la lógica"

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    Autor Eloísa López
    Resumen Salma Hayek vuelve a enamorar a la gran pantalla en "Preguntale al Viento", dirigida por el oscarizado guionista de "Chinatown", Robert Towne, y basada en una novela de John Fante. Hayek interpreta a Camila Lopez, una voluptuosa e indomable mejicana capaz de transformar el rechazo inicial de Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell) en una profunda pasion amorosa que trasciende al odio racial imperante en la decada de los treinta en la ciudad de Los Angeles.
    Fecha 2006
    URL https://lens.org/102-718-419-837-741
    Volumen 18
    Páginas 28-29
    Número 207
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  • Sarcàstic i tendre, a la Bandini: Al oeste de Roma [John Fante]

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    Autor Ester Pino
    Fecha 2007
    URL https://lens.org/191-249-972-899-605
    Páginas 70
    Número 16
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  • Small Press Legends: John Martin

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    Autor Abel Debritto
    Resumen John Martin (1930), founder of Black Sparrow Press, was both publisher and editor for 36 years, retiring in 2002. He is most noted for helping to launch the literary career of Charles Bukowski and re-publishing the works of John Fante. He published over a dozen titles annually, with more than $1 million in sales, including works by Wyndham Lewis, Paul Bowles, Robert Duncan, Theodore Dreiser, Joyce Carol Oates, D.H. Lawrence, Diane Wakoski and many other influential writers. Martin sold Black Sparrow’s backlist to David R. Godine in 2002, and publication rights to Bukowski, Paul Bowles, and John Fante, were sold to Ecco Press, where they still appear, with the now-famous covers designed by his wife Barbara Martin.
    Fecha 2015
    URL https://lens.org/056-893-464-226-36X
    Páginas 171-180
    Número 70
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  • Stealing Home: John Fante and the Moral Dimension of Baseball - ProQuest

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  • Stephen Cooper and Clorinda Donato, eds. John Fante’s Ask the Dust: A Joining of Voices and Views. New York: Fordham UP, 2020, pp. 329. Review by Elisa Bordin

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    Autor Elisa Bordin
    Fecha 2020-11-01
    URL https://lens.org/037-451-874-798-080
    Volumen 15
    Páginas 394-397
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  • Stephen Cooper, Clorinda Donato, Eds. 'John Fante's Ask the Dust. A Joining of Voices and Views'

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    Autor Cinzia Scarpino
    URL https://lens.org/144-088-709-564-243
    Volumen 25
    Páginas 696-698
    DOI 10.13130/2037-2426/13869
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  • "Swearing in" : Il senso della cittadinanza nella letteratura di John Fante

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    Autor Martino Marazzi
    Fecha 2006
    URL https://lens.org/190-383-198-002-870
    Páginas 1000-1010
    Número 6
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  • "Tea and cookies. Diavolo!": Italian American Masculinity in John Fante's Wait Until Spring, Bandini

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    Autor Rocco Marinaccio
    Resumen [T]he Italian-American has found himself in the dilemma of reconciling the psychological sovereignty of his people with the aspirations and demands of being American. --Richard Gambino (35) The long, prolific career of Italian American novelist John Fante (1909-1983) is bracketed by a quartet of autobiographical novels spanning the adolescence and young adulthood of Fante's fictional alter ego, Arturo Bandini, an Italian American man who dreams of and finally achieves literary success. Beginning in 1936 with the long-unpublished The Road to Los Angeles (published 1985), through the national successes of Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938) and Ask the Dust (1939), and concluding with Dreams from Bunker Hill (1982), (1) the sequence generally is viewed as an exploration of the American promise and a representation of the generational conflicts characteristic of immigrant families. (2) But the Bandini family drama hardly makes for another Algeresque tale of an American dreamer, nor does it reveal generational attitudes toward old-world values in their conventional form. Wait Until Spring, Bandini--the novel that most explicitly addresses the Italian American experience--ends not with Arturo's achievement of typically American success in the public realm, but instead with a more distinctly Italian goal: the restoration of his family in the wake of his father's abandonment. More significantly, Arturo's climactic efforts emerge amid the disgrace and defeat of his father, Svevo, who has left his wife and sons at Christmas for an affair with a wealthy widow. The narratives of father and son are inextricably entwined; indeed, the novel's title collapses Svevo and Arturo into a composite character, the dreamer awaiting the rebirth of spring and a return to the activity (bricklaying for Svevo, baseball for Arturo) that he hopes will secure his fortune. At novel's end, spring--and all it promises--has yet to arrive. But while Arturo's nascent heroism suggests the brighter future Ask the Dust will provide, Svevo's failure is conclusive, a cautionary tale at the inception of Fnte's saga. A study of Svevo's downfall is, therefore, essential to a complex understanding of this landmark Italian American bildungsroman, one which not only affirms a set of distinctly old-world values but also specifically reverses the conventional generational dynamics of immigrant fiction by positing the Italian-born father--and not the American-born son--as the primary betrayer of his Italian heritage. (3) In real and fictional Italian American families, it is typically the children and grandchildren of immigrants who, in pursuit of an American identity, challenge l'ordine della famiglia, the characteristic ideology of southern Italian immigrants that establishes the family as the primary social unit and determines relationships not only between family members but also between family members and outsiders. In Bandini, however, it is Svevo Bandini who violates this code of behavior, adopting the American values of independent ambition and professional achievement in place of the traditional Italian emphasis on personal sacrifice and family loyalty. (4) Like many immigrant men, Svevo hungers to "make America," but discovers that doing so requires a hard-knuckled individualism alien to traditional Italian values. To be an American man risks failing as an Italian man. But continued allegiance to Italian values risks a potentially more dire fate. As the quasi-sexual imagery of the phrase implies, "making America" secures for the immigrant man fruits of conquest that testify to his masculinity. Assimilation thus becomes a test of manhood, and failure to assimilate is failure to be a man in the cultural context that seems to matter most: the dominant American one. From this cultural logic emerges what we might call an ethno-misogyny, in which aspects of a devalued Italian identity become feminized; thus Svevo, in his pursuit of assimilation, consistently repudiates Italian values as unmanly, a repudiation that involves repressing his Italian identity as a threat to his tenuous self-conceptions not simply as an American but as an American man. …
    Fecha 2009
    URL https://lens.org/068-954-422-430-778
    Adicional Place: United States Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
    Volumen 34
    Páginas 43-69
    Publicación MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.
    DOI 10.1353/mel.0.0040
    Número 3
    ISSN 19463170
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  • The Brotherhood of the Grape by John Fante Literary

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    Autor John Fante
    Fecha 2005-11-07
    URL https://lens.org/134-249-483-807-223
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  • The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story - John Fante (1909–1983)

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    Autor Fred L. Gardaphe
    Autor Blanche H. Gelfant
    Fecha 2004-12-31
    URL https://lens.org/019-103-751-528-458
    Adicional DOI: 10.7312/gelf11098-046
    Editorial Columbia University Press
    Páginas 245-248
    Título del libro The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story
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  • The father, the son and the sense of humor: The novels of John Fante - ProQuest

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    URL https://www.proquest.com/openview/1df365f89ac46d3374514c4ab2283e20/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
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  • The Italian American Studies Association at Fifty-Five: 1966–2021

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    Autor Alan J. Gravano
    Autor Alexandra de Luise
    Resumen My introduction to the American Italian Historical Association (AIHA) started with a conversation with John Paul Russo, professor and chair, Department of Classics, the University of Miami, in 2003. As a graduate student in the English Department, I embarked on a quest to finalize my dissertation topic. Russo recommended that I read Don DeLillo's Underworld (1997), which I did. The text changed my way of thinking about contemporary American literature. Over several months of talking with Russo and Robert Casillo, I settled on an interdisciplinary theme of waste in fiction, film, and poetry. My goal was to select notable Italian Americans’ texts and films to analyze within the lens of waste in twentieth-century cinema and literature. I opted to focus on DeLillo's mega-novel and Martin Scorsese's The Departed (2006). Unable to decide on an Italian American poet to complement DeLillo and Scorsese's works, I chose A. R. Ammons's book-length poem, Garbage (1993). At the time, Casillo was working on Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese (2006), and Russo was completing The Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society, which included a seminal chapter “Don DeLillo: Ethnicity, Religion, and the Critique of Technology” (2005, 211–42). Their work on Italian American filmmakers and authors demonstrated how to incorporate one's interest with one's research.In 2007, I traveled across the country to a place I had never visited, Denver, Colorado, to join Russo at a professional conference and learn more about Italian American studies and, hopefully, about my own heritage. I entered the hotel elevator alone, having just finished a phone call with Russo; I learned that he had to cancel his travels at the last minute. I was crestfallen but determined to follow Russo's advice and seek out Fred L. Gardaphé and Anthony Julian Tamburri. Coincidentally, as the elevator door opened, Gardaphé and Tamburri walked into this impressionable learner's path and altered his trajectory. They introduced me, a young graduate student, to Rudolph “Rudy” J. Vecoli and other mentees: Ilaria Serra and Chiara Mazzucchelli. As the weekend progressed, I realized what I had been missing not having lived in a robust Italian American community or previous exposure to intellectual conversations of Italian American heritage with peers. Intrigued with the realization that Italian American studies could be combined into current professional and research interests, as a new PhD, I entered academe and followed Casillo's, Gardaphé’s, Russo's, and Tamburri's example. Inspired, almost immediately, I took on my first leadership role in the organization whose conference changed my perception of what it meant to be Italian American: the American Italian Historical Association (AIHA).Thus, my involvement with the AIHA started with being elected as an Executive Council (EC) member, becoming the secretary for two terms, and finally running for president. During my tenure in the organization, I have witnessed the name change from the American Italian Historical Association to the Italian American Studies Association and attended each annual conference and our two international symposia. During my time on the EC, Alexandra de Luise completed two terms as curator and then secretary. Currently, in 2021, she is vice president. Our story begins in the following pages, first with the movement to change the organization's name to the various domestic and international meetings. We include two appendices, which may serve to continue as living documents. Appendix A consists of the officers from 1967 through the present, while appendix B lists the conference proceedings (1968–2017). Alexandra and I hope that future officers write the next installment of our association's history.Because the idea to change the association's name started before my involvement, Alexandra de Luise and I agreed to find the best member to speak on the subject: Fred L. Gardaphé. In an email exchange, he talked at length about the questions colleagues and friends would ask: What was an American Italian? They wanted to know when we all used Italian American in our discussions. Secondly, what was a scholar of literature doing in a historical association? At this time, other groups were being formed and referring to themselves as Mexican American Studies Association, Asian American, Polish American, and so forth. Gardaphé, as a member of the American Studies Association, thought that it would be appropriate if we evolved as a scholarly association that reflected what was going on throughout the field of ethnic studies. I simply thought that we should join the ethnic studies masses with a name that would reflect the growing diversity of the scholars in AIHA. Since I was the President, I couldn't put forth a motion in a meeting unless I temporarily relinquished my presidency to introduce the motion for a name change. To that end, I asked John Mitrano, the then youngest member of the Executive Council, to make the motion. He did, and after it was seconded, we went into a long and tiring discussion of the pros and cons of changing the name of an organization that had existed for over 34 years. After a long and heated discussion that included accusations of heresy and youthful illusions, the EC voted it down. Thus, it would not be put to the vote by the Association's members. (Fred L. Gardaphé, email to Alan J. Gravano, February 2, 2021)Gardaphé contextualized the 1997 events with even more detail: “This all happened at the annual meeting in San Francisco, and when I gave the President's address, I started with, ‘How old do you have to be to be an adult in this organization? Why was I elected President if I wasn't trusted to do what's best for the organization?’ I went on to report on the discussion. After I stated the results of the EC vote, I promptly resigned.” Gardaphé explained the resolution of the matter: “The compromise to me retracting my resignation was an agreement to put it to a vote of the membership through a national ballot.” The association's name change ultimately failed because of some maneuvering by those swayed to vote a certain way. The next time it was put to another membership vote, most of those who voted against it were no longer members.On May 14, 2011, at the annual spring meeting of the Executive Council, Fred Gardaphé introduced the motion that the association change the name from AIHA to the Italian American Studies Association. The AIHA Executive Council voted, and the proposal to put the name change up to a members’ vote passed unanimously at that spring meeting. The EC publicized this information with the membership and prepared an electronic vote later that summer. At the Tampa conference meeting on October 20, 2011, the EC reviewed the results. Seventy-eight percent of the membership voted in favor of the name change; the 2012 conference was the first under the new name (Fred L. Gardaphé, email to Alan J. Gravano, February 2, 2021).Some of the background Fred Gardaphé alludes to can be found in three seminal works on the AIHA's history. They include Frank J. Cavaioli's “The American Italian Historical Association: Twenty Years Later, 1966–1986” (1989, 23–40) and The American Italian Historical Association at the Millennium (2000) as well as Jerome Krase's “The American Italian Historical Association: A View from the Bridge” (2008, 23–40). Each presents the establishment of the association at crucial moments. In most definite terms by its founders, the AIHA was made up predominantly of historians and sociologists, whose goal was to preserve and celebrate the past. Their approach required documented proof, what Cavaioli called “objective knowledge.” It coincided with the growth at this same time of archives, institutes, and centers housing Italian American primary material (e.g., the Center for Migration Studies, the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, the Balch Institute in Philadelphia, and the Immigration History Research Center in Minnesota). Interdisciplinary studies, creative writing, or literature did not figure in until well later.Beginning with Jerome Krase's presidency (1993–96) to the present, there has been a shift in members’ academic disciplines away from the social sciences, such as history, to literature and communications (Krase 2008). In fact, for all the years I have attended the annual conferences (2007-present), most of the attendees have been literary and film scholars with a devoted creative writing contingent. In addition to changes in discipline, I observed the election of the AIHA's first female president, Mary Jo Bona (2007–08), and then Josephine Gattuso Hendin (2009–10). Out of sixteen presidents, only two have been women.This section highlights the various conferences and symposia that Alexandra de Luise and I attended, including keynote speakers, conference presentations, and other memorable moments. Joseph V. Ricapito (1933–2018) spearheaded the push for the 42nd annual conference of the American Italian Historical Association, Southern Exposures: Locations and Relocations in Italian Culture, hosted by Louisiana State University, October 29 through November 1, 2009. Presentations that stick with me still include John Gennari's “Killer Vees’ Whistling Dixie: Jim Valvano, Dick Vitale, and ACC Basketball as Ethnic Schicht,” Tamburri's “Michael Corleone's Tie: Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and the Rhetoric of Antinomy,” Courtney J. Ruffner's “Images of Italian American Colonization,” Josephine Gattuso Hendin's “Avant-Garde/Experimental Italian American Writing,” and John Lowe's keynote address “Tutto é Burla: Humor and Identity in Italian American Culture.”Popular Italian American writer Adriana Trigiani inaugurated the 43rd annual conference, Advocacy and Activism: Italian Heritage and Cultural Change, at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, November 11–13, 2010. Gerald J. Meyer gave a moving keynote address titled “Fiorello La Guardia (1882–1947), Leonard Covello (1887–1982), and Vito Marcantonio (1902–1954): Collaborators for Progress.” Two sessions that I attended included Paul Giaimo's “The Evolution of Don DeLillo's Italian Americans” and Bénédicte Deschamps's “‘Where she used to be a servant, let her now be a partner’: Arturo Giovannitti and the ‘Woman Question.’” Meanwhile, Maria Mazziotti Gillan organized a panel, “Reassessing the Work of Diane di Prima” with Peter Covino, Daniela Gioseffi, and Rachel Guido de Vries.Warmer weather awaited us in the beautiful city of Tampa, Florida, with accommodations near the water for seventy-one participants at the 44th annual conference on October 20–22, 2011, whose theme was Italian American Body Politics: Private Lives and the Public Sphere. We kicked off the conference with a keynote address from Gary Mormino: “From Dago Hill to Ybor City: Reflections of an Immigrant Historian.” Presentations that year included Perri Giovannucci's “The Italian Presence in Modern Egypt,” Samuele F. S. Pardini's “The Dago (Bruce Springsteen) and the Darkie (Clarence Clemons), or Love and Death on the American Stage,” Denise Scannell-Guida's “Amanda Knox and the Bella Figura: Performing a Guilty Verdict,” Danielle Battisti's “Becoming Americans: Postwar Italian American Consumer Culture, Anti-Communism, and Immigration Reform,” and Laurie and Michael Buonanno's “Italian-American Political Leadership in the Tea Party Era: Conservative, Progressive, Reactionary?” Paul Giaimo used emerging communication technology to Skype Rebecca Rey from Australia for the roundtable “All Things DeLillo: The Author in the Age of Twenty-First Century White Ethnics.”We were back in New York but at a different venue when the inaugural Italian American Studies Association annual conference was hosted by Hofstra University, November 29 through December 1, 2012, with a theme of E Pluribus: What Is Italian America? The IASA dedicated the event to the recently deceased Executive Council member Paul S. Giaimo. I met Paul at my first conference in Denver (2007). We went out for food and drinks at the Hard Rock Cafe and discussed our love of Don DeLillo. We bonded that night, and over the next several years, he organized panels on DeLillo, and we supported each other in our research endeavors. He had introduced me to Rebecca Rey, who was working on DeLillo's plays, and in 2011, he published Appreciating Don DeLillo: The Moral Force of a Writer's Work (New York: Praeger, 2011). One other commonality besides our keen interest in DeLillo was that he worked at a community college. We spoke at length about the required heavy teaching load and the commitment to balance his family life (Sarah, his wife, and two children Clare and Michael) with teaching and scholarship. Although I knew that Paul's health was precarious, he never shared with me that he was battling cancer. Paul died on June 8, 2012; he was only 50 years old.At the Hofstra conference, George Guida organized “A Tribute to IASA's Founders” and introduced Salvatore J. LaGumina, who delivered remarks on the association's founding and first years of life as the American Italian Historical Association. Guida, as IASA representative, presented LaGumina with an award commemorating his decades of dedicated service. Following the concurrent sessions, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, poet, and plenary speaker Richard Vetere addressed the question “What is an Italian American Writer?” The day concluded with Donna Gabaccia's provocative keynote “Italian American Studies: A Little History,” which analyzed the disciplinary content of the 2012 IASA sessions and argued for an increase in the number of interdisciplinary sessions. Some session highlights consisted of Maria Protti's “Philip Lamantia and His Embrace of Italian-American Imagery: The Path of a Surrealistic Mystic Poet,” William Connell's “Who's Afraid of Columbus,” Vera Lentini's “The Italian Tarantella,” Michele Fazio's “Woody Guthrie's Sicilian Sojourn: Reflections of Folk Life on the Road from Palermo to Plymouth,” and Roseanne Giannini Quinn's “Ethnicity this Way: From Connie Francis to Lady Gaga and the Embodied Legacy of Italian American Female Performance.” Robert Viscusi read excerpts from his 2009 epic poem, Ellis Island. Dawn Esposito chaired the session “Lavender Paesans: Italian American Gay and Lesbian Identities” with Michael Carosone, Joseph Anthony LoGiudice, and Vittoria repetto. Overall, the 2012 conference had forty sessions and ninety participants. The annual event brought its mission of sharing, enriching, and promulgating Italian American history and culture to an area with one of the largest Italian American populations in the US.The 46th annual conference in New Orleans, Italian American Identity Politics, October 3–5, 2013, consisted of twenty-five panels and included Gil Fagiani's “Vito Marcantonio: Beloved Son of Italian Harlem, Master of the Multiethnic Coalition,” Sarah Salter's “Il Bambino in Pericolo: Reproductive Futurity and Italian-American Identity,” Jessica Barbata's “Before the Lynchings: Revising our Understanding of the Italian Experience in Louisiana (1880s-1890s),” George De Stefano's “‘They Were Just Neighbors’: Cosimo Matassa and the New Orleans Sound,” and Mark Pietralunga's “Amerigo Ruggiero's Italiani in America and the Question of Italian Identity.” Bruce Boyd Raeburn's delivered an excellent keynote, “Italian Americans in New Orleans Jazz: Bel Canto Meets the Funk.” Other notable sessions consisted of Theirry Rindaldetti's “Bringing Distant Communities Together: Italian Birds of Passage in the Mining Districts of the United States” and Clorinda Donato's “Fashioning a New Identity for Italian American Woman: The Media Politics of Adriana Trigiani.”IASA members needed their passports for the 47th annual conference, Italians Without Borders: Transnational Italian (American) Experience, at the University of Toronto, October 17–19, 2014. The stately, gothic architecture of the University of Toronto's campus was an appropriate setting for such talks as Luisa Del Giudice's “Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migration, Development” and Aaron Baker's “The Real Rocky: Television Documentary and the American Dream.” Ryan Calabretta-Sajder organized Queer Italian American Literature: Space, Place, and Class and presented a talk titled “Caught Between ‘Two’ Worlds: Space, Class, and Gender in Robert Ferro's The Family of Max Desir and The Blue Star.” Again, several notable presentations included Luca Lanzilotta's “More than a Deviation: Felice Picano's Italian Journey” and Taylor Papallo's “Alterity and the Evolving Italian American Family in Philip Gambone's ‘Enrollment.’” Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta's session, “A Labor of Love: Learning about Life, Work, and Intellectual Engagement with Louise DeSalvo,” featuring Mary Jo Bona, Kimberly Costino, Ilaria Serra, and Anthony Tamburri with DeSalvo as respondent, had an energy all its own. Historian Bruno Ramirez gave a keynote titled “Transnationalism and Italian Migrations to the US and Canada.”In 2014, the association made a more concerted effort to gather together its documents, accumulating at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute since the early 2000s, for preservation. The materials in CMS.008C consist of Series I: Frank J. Cavaioli Papers, Series II: Publications, Series III: Financials 1967–2010, Series IV: Papers 1990–2013, Series V: Digital 1998–2013, Series VI: Photographs, Series VII: Audiotape, Pietro Di Donato 1983, Series VIII: Addendum 2014 (Italian American Studies Records).1 Alexandra de Luise, as the IASA's curator, transferred the archival material to the Center for Migration Studies (CMS). Mary Brown, archivist and bibliographer at the CMS, happily received our materials. With the new submissions, she and Alexandra de Luise, then IASA curator, decided to develop a new electronic finding aid that would incorporate information on all the deposits, both the most recent and the older collection importantly. This modification was long overdue, and it resulted in easier discoverability of our holdings (Center for Migration Studies n.d.).Before the association finalized the location of the 48th annual conference, President George Guida asked John Viola, chief operating officer of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF), to attend our May 17, 2014, EC meeting at the Calandra Institute. Viola presented a proposal to IASA. If we held our conference in Washington, DC, NIAF would print the program, provide lanyards and name badges, coffee, and a light breakfast for Friday and Saturday morning. They would supply the AV equipment and the necessary space for our annual event. The decision to partner with NIAF did not come without controversy. Some IASA members did not agree with the organization's conservative viewpoints and its representatives. However, recognizing the opportunity to expand membership and IASA's dire financial situation, the EC voted in favor of the motion to collaborate.Thus, we joined together in invited sessions, conversations, and food with the NIAF for the 48th annual conference, Italian American Values, in Washington, DC, October 15–17, 2015. The talks covered a range of topics and included Anna Ciamparella's “Discovering Italian Canadian Literature,” Teresa Fava Thomas's “Columbus Day 1938: Why Celebrate? Italian Americans in Massachusetts and the Hurricane of ’38,” Alessandra Galassi's “‘Tutti a Tavola!’ Family, Food, and Stereotypes in Moonstruck,” Rose De Angelis's “Revisiting Women's Roles: Motherhood, Family, and the Italian Way,” Joseph Tumolo's “A Conflicted Self: A Postmodern Reading of Diverging Narratives of Values and Identity in John Fante's Ask the Dust,” Donna Chirico's “How Pasta Fazool is Destroying Your Heritage: The Negative Impact of the Bastardization of Language in Psychological Development,” Amy Riolo's “The Role of Food in Italian American Culture and Identity,” Michelle Rodino-Colocino's “Making Italian Americans Productive: Notes from A Cultural History of New Media and Labor Management,” Anthony Dion Mitzel's “Breaking Bread: Appropriating Italian Cuisine on TV Cooking Shows,” and John Champagne's “Liminal Masculinities, Liminal Italians/Americas: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Corrado Cagli.” There were hundreds of NIAF members in attendance. Although some of our colleagues complained about the noise from the numerous NIAF attendees swarming to the nearby Expo Italiana, other IASA members enjoyed the chance to get one or more free espressos. Even more partook of the drink and food tastings amid the music and cacophony of sounds. Some have considered Robert Cohen's presentation “Mario, Bob. Bob, Mario: The Making of an Italian American Radical,” one of the more notable keynotes.Those of us fortunate to attend our next conference on the West Coast felt energized by the warm November weather and classroom settings both indoors and outdoors. The 49th annual conference, Recorded, Reported, Projected, and Pixelated—Italian Americans in Mass Media, was held at California State University, Long Beach, November 3–5, 2016. We were overdue for a West Coast meeting. The last two West Coast conferences were in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2001, and San Francisco, in 1999. The George L. Graziadio Chair of Italian Studies, Clorinda Donato, made us all feel welcome. She and her team delivered on every aspect of the conference, from the planning to the logistics. That year we arranged for two talks because, in addition to IASA funding one keynote, Donato worked vigorously to find support for a second one. The first night, Louisa Ermelino delivered her address “From Sinatra to Gaga: Seventy Years of Italian Americans Center Stage and Behind the Scenes in Art, Music, Theater, Literature, and Sports.” On the following day, Pasquale Verdicchio gave his keynote “Italian Americans Represented: The Pleasure of Pixels and the Wisdom of Images.”In addition to the two guest speakers and a roundtable on pedagogy, there were so many memorable presentations: Joshua Alan Hoxmeier's “Effects of Military Service during World War II on the Identity of Italian American Men,” Enrico Vettore's “The Italian American Contribution to the Art of Jazz Guitar: Joe Pass and Pat Martino,” Mary Ann McDonald Carolan's “Once Upon a Time in Quentin Tarantino's New West,” Alberto Zambenedetti's “Acting Transcultural: Craft and Transformation in the ‘Tony Mustante Papers,’” Joseph Conte's The Ritornati: Migration and Remigration in Sciascia's ‘The Long Crossing’ and Tucci's Big Night,” Shira Klein's “Italian American Jews and the Myth of the Good Italian,” Colleen Ryan's “Enclaves and Ensembles: Performative Masculinities in Galluccio's Mambo Italiano,” and JoAnne Ruvoli's “Italian American Period Dramedies: Penny Marshall's Nostalgic Melancholia.” I also recall that Long Beach was the first session of an ongoing series on pedagogy; during the roundtable session “Teaching Italian American Studies in North America,” conceived by Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, we swapped Italian American studies and film syllabi and talked about teaching methods and what worked. There were not enough seats for this session; many stood in the back of the classroom to listen. Luisa Del Giudice organized a guided tour of Sabato Rodia's Watts Towers on Sunday morning of the conference, sponsored by California State University, Long Beach, and IASA. Were that not enough artistic enlightenment, we had a memorable visit to the Italian American Museum in Los Angeles to view an interactive show of Italian material culture and witness the creative ways they document the Italian American experience in Los Angeles and on the West Coast. Marianna Gatto and her team arranged an exhibit and refreshments for our members.Some mention needs to be made of the notable film screenings we enjoyed watching during the conferences or, on occasion, in sessions. Alexandra de Luise and I recall Antonino D'Ambrosio's Frank Serpico (a documentary on the former NYPD officer and whistleblower) screening (and Stanislao G. Pugliese's introduction) at the 2015 Washington, DC, conference and film director Mikki (Mitch) del Monico screening a part of his film Alto at the 2016 Long Beach conference. Performance art, theatre, and poetry slams also were part of our conferences, such as Annie Lanzillotto's L is for Lion: An Italian American Butch Freedom Memoir at the 2012 Hofstra conference, the Poetry Nightcap featuring ten poets the first night of the 2014 Toronto conference, and the Italian American Theatre company performance in Chicago in 2018.Early on during my tenure on the EC, there were conversations about having a conference or symposium abroad. However, many did not respond favorably and cited the cost and a low number of participants as reasons against the idea. As president, I championed hosting events in Italy. Some members were reluctant to organize both our annual conference and an international one. Luckily, I found enough like-minded individuals who supported this initiative and actively participated in making it happen. Nine years later, we organized both the annual conference in the US, Faith, (Ir)reverence, and the Italian Diaspora: Fifty Years of Italian American Studies, and an international symposium, Theorizing the Italian Diaspora,” at the University of Calabria, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Italian American Studies Association. In addition to panels presenting scholarship on John Fante, the Italian diaspora, and cultural studies, the Symposium Committee felt the need for a connected series of hands-on workshops focused on the basics for the graduate students in attendance. The concept behind the workshops at the symposium, though, was developed by IASA Executive Council members Jessica Femiani, Michele Fazio, and Ryan Calabretta-Sajder. Graduate students are often so overwhelmed with their courses, papers, and teaching assignments that when they do seek a professional organization that shares their passion they do not receive enough guidance and support. They can feel insignificant, forgotten, overwhelmed, and, unfortunately, even unwelcome at certain academic meetings, so reaching out to them and requesting their participation beyond just taking a seat in the audience can foster growth and development. Fourteen graduate students enrolled in the nine-credit course called “Cultura e Letteratura Italiana Americana” (CLIA) [Italian American Culture and Literature] at the University of Calabria presented at the symposium. This mix of Italian, American, Argentinian, Venezuelan, and other international students gave papers in English on topics ranging from Louise DeSalvo and Gay Talese to The Sopranos. Meeting and working with the graduate students provided the foundation that Professor Margherita Ganeri, director of CLIA, and others agreed would benefit these younger students of Italian American studies—an opportunity that I would have jumped at the chance for all those years ago.Regarding the IASA's first international symposium (AIHA had had a couple of smaller conferences in Italy in the past), Theorizing the Italian Diaspora, hosted by the University of Calabria, I am indebted to Margherita Ganeri, professor of contemporary Italian literature and director of the Program on Italian American Studies, and Gianpiero Barbuto, manager of International Relations. They worked tirelessly to sponsor a fantastic inaugural event in Italy. Overwhelmingly successful, the symposium had close to twenty graduate students from the University of Calabria present on various diasporic topics. Ultimately, the IASA produced a special volume, Theorizing the Italian Diaspora: Selected Essays (Calabretta-Sajder, Gravano, and Ruffner Grieneisen 2018), with ten graduate students’ contributions.With the help of Mary Brown, archivist and bibliographer at CMS and a scholar of Italian church history, images highlighting AIHA board members throughout the decades were featured in the program, in celebration of the fiftieth-anniversary conference Faith, (Ir)reverence, and the Italian Diaspora: Fifty Years of Italian American Studies in Washington, DC, November 2–4, 2017. Speakers kept to the theme of faith in many of the sessions, as did keynote speaker and professor of religion Robert Orsi, who capped off his humorous opening talk with a roundtable discussion composed of like-minded professors of religion, mostly former students of his (Kristy Nabhan-Warren and Susan Ridgely), in a stimulating back and forth. There were various paper topics, such as Michele Deramo's “Me, I'm from the Mezzogiorno: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Memory, Migration, and Imagined Communities,” Giuliana Muscio's “Censoring Italian Women's Religious Practices: The Miracle, The Rose Tattoo, Full of Life and Film Censors,” Dennis Barone's “The (Italian) American Mercury: Mencken's Publication (Sacred and Profane) of Cautela, Fante, and Turano,” Cinzia Marongiu's “Border-Crossing Madonna: Religious Images and Multi-Ethnic Coalition in Kym Ragusa's The Skin between Us,” Jerry Krase's “The Italians of Brooklyn Revisited,” Lorraine Mangione's “Italian American Daughters and Dads: Relationship of Spirituality and Religion,” Jonathan Cavallero's “Putting Faith in the Visual: Television, Authorship, Gender, and The Sopranos,” and Benjamin Lawton spent an hour discussing pedagogical strategies in the session Teaching The Godfather Films. Additionally, we had an Italian Canadian–themed session featuring Jan Marta's “Faith as Identified and Source of Resilience: Italian Canadians in WWII and Muslim Canadians in the 21st Century” and Jessica Leonara Whitehead's “The Italian-Canadian Internment: The Case of the Mascioli Brothers of Timmins, Ontario.” There were moments of reflection during panels on Past AIHA &amp; IASA Presidents (with Candeloro, Krase, Gardaphé, Guida, a
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  • The Marginalizing Effect of Ethnic Expectations: John Fante’s ‘Asian’ Writings

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    Autor Elisa Bordin
    Resumen In this essay, I consider Italian-American writer John Fante’s ‘Asian’ writings, namely The Little Brown Brothers (1930s) and “The Dreamer” (1947), and the role these works had in defining Fante’s success alternatively as an American and an Italian American writer. The focus on ethnic consciousness, which has prevailed in ethnic studies for a long time, has, in Fante’s case, limited the analysis of his works, excluding them from broader and transethnic literary movements, contexts, and practices. Even though an ‘ethnic’ approach has been seminal to tackle Fante’s works, the focus on his italianita has also obscured other topics present in his literary work, reducing Fante’s complexity and potentiality as a writer with consequences on his place in the American literary landscape. This is what I try to prove by analyzing his ‘Asian’ writings, which show an interest outside his heritage of descent which was, however, unable to develop in the American publishing market of the time.
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    Volumen 5
    DOI 10.13136/2281-4582/2015.i6.584
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  • The Road to John Fante's Los Angeles

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    Adicional DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv102bj6q.23
    Editorial Fordham University Press
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    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • The road to john fante's los angeles

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    Autor Stephen Cooper
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    URL https://lens.org/147-591-488-523-268
    Adicional DOI: 10.1515/9780823287888-021
    Editorial Fordham University Press
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    Título del libro John Fante's Ask the Dust
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  • Un’etnicità complessa. Negoziazioni identitarie nelle opere di John Fante. Elisa Bordin

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    Autor Francesco Chianese
    URL https://lens.org/001-465-453-262-676
    DOI 10.13136/2281-4582/2020.i15.405
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  • WORDS OF AN HONEST MAN

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    Autor İlkiz Bilem Gürbüz
    Resumen Being a successful, well-known writer does not only require talent but also requires luck. John Fante is a writer who couldn’t be popular by writing a classic but according to a very well known writer, Charles Bukowski, Fante is one of the greatest writers in the history. When I came across with Bukowski’s introduction on the first page of Fante’s novel, Ask The Dust, it absolutely caught my attention. As an admirer of American literature, I heard Fante’s name for the first time. After I finished the book, Arturo Bandini’s life, which was based on his desire of being a writer, seemed a lot like of Fante’s life. Fante was not only telling the story of Arturo but was also using him to reflect two major themes: a person’s basic needs and the struggle with the creation of the identity. As a consequence of my realization, I worked on the question ‘how does a writer use major characters to reflect the major themes?’ in my essay. While I was analyzing the novel, I tried to point out that Fante did not only create the personalities of the characters but also their backgrounds, ethnicities, lifestyles, vocational tendencies and the environments that they live in order to demonstrate the whole concept of the themes. I aimed to approach from all the perspectives that affect the reflections of the main themes while evaluating the functions of the characters. As a result, I came to conclusion that the explanation of the major problems in a society can only be possible by taking a close look to the individuals. The role of the writer is to choose the correct example affected by the problem, like picking samples. According to the novel, Fante creates the reality that reflects the major problems and chooses Arturo and Camilla in order to demonstrate those problems.
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