John Fante's Ask the Dust: A Joining of Voices and Views by Stephen Cooper (Engl

Description: John Fante's Ask the Dust by Stephen Cooper, Clorinda Donato, Miriam Amico, Charles Bukowski, Giovanna Di Lello, John Fante, Valerio Ferme, Teresa Fiore, Daniel Gardner This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fantes 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the works present and future impact.The contributors to this work-writers, critics, fans, scholars, screenwriters, directors, and others-analyze the provocative set of diaspora tensions informing Fantes masterpiece that distinguish it from those accounts of earlier East Coast migrations and minglings. A must-read for aficionados of L.A. fiction and new migration literature, John Fantes "Ask the Dust": A Joining of Voices and Views is destined for landmark status as the first volume of Fante studies to reveal the novels evolving intertextualities and intersectionalities.Contributors: Miriam Amico, Charles Bukowski, Stephen Cooper, Giovanna DiLello, John Fante, Valerio Ferme, Teresa Fiore, Daniel Gardner, Philippe Garnier, Robert Guffey, Ryan Holiday, Jan Louter, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Meagan Meylor, Jaime Morrison, Nathan Rabin, Alan Rifkin, Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Danny Shain, Robert Towne, Joel Williams FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Stephen Cooper (Edited By) Stephen Cooper is Professor of English, California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante (Angel City Press, 2005).Clorinda Donato (Edited By) Clorinda Donato is the George L. Graziadio Chair of Italian Studies at California State University, Long Beach. She co-wrote The "Encyclopédie Méthodique" in Spain. Table of Contents Introduction | 11. New Approaches to John Fantes Ask the DustFrom the Particular to the Universal: Vittorinis ItalianAdaptation of Ask the Dust | 15Valerio FermeWhen Spirituality Ebbs and Flows: Religion and DiasporicAlienation in Ask the Dust | 43Suzanne Manizza Roszak"Sad Flower in the Sand": Camilla Lopez and the Erasureof Memory in Ask the Dust | 58Meagan Meylor"A Ramona in Reverse": Writing the Madness of the SpanishPast in Ask the Dust | 83Daniel Gardner2. Sibling Arts: Ask the Dust in Dance, Music,the Graphic Novel, and FrenchDancing with the Dust: Translating Ask the Dust to the Stage | 111Jaime MorrisonAsk the Lyrics: John Fante in Music | 127Chiara MazzucchelliWatch Out or Youll End up in My Novel: The Lost Worldof Ask the Dust | 145Robert GuffeyDont Ask the French | 157Philippe Garnier3. Ask the Dust and Its Effects: Readers and Writers RespondAmid the Dust | 167Miriam AmicoThe Passion That Became a Festival | 177Giovanna DiLelloI Had Bandini: Reading Ask the Dust in Prison | 193Joel WilliamsWriting in the Dust | 201Alan RifkinHow Hitler Nearly Destroyed the Great American Novel | 213Ryan Holiday4. Ask the Dust and Its Due: Two Filmmakers and Bukowski Pay TributeInterview with Robert Towne | 237Nathan RabinLetters from Los Angeles | 245Jan Louter"My Dear Bukowski," "Hello John Fante": Preface to Ask the Dust | 261John Fante and Charles Bukowski5. The Attic, the Archive, and BeyondFrom Family to Institutional Memory: A Conversationwith Stephen Cooper | 273Teresa FiorePrelude to "Prologue to Ask the Dust" | 281Stephen CooperGoodbye, Bunker Hill | 290John FanteThe Road to John Fantes Los Angeles | 296Stephen CooperAcknowledgments | 315List of Contributors | 319Bibliography | 325Index | 331 Review A decisive contribution to the critical understanding and (re)assessment of John Fantes Ask the Dust, a novel that, while appreciated by many, has never really made it into the canon. These essays effectively demonstrate the theoretical and thematic currency of the novel for todays critics and scholars, promising to become a landmark in the landscape of Fante scholarship.---Donatella Izzo, Università degli studi di Napoli "LOrientale"John Fantes Ask the Dust confirms the extent to which Fantes work has influenced and inspired the work of so many others through the decades and to this day. He does belong on the big bookshelf of accomplished American authors, neatly tucked in before Faulkner and followed by the likes of Fitzgerald and Frost.-- "Enthymema"John Fantes Ask the Dust communicates the importance of the novel by giving space to both scholarly essays and nonacademic testimonies, which investigate the role the book has played in the development of the authors here gathered. Rather than a thorough work of academic inquiry, the present volume is therefore an homage to the writer, as the editors themselves declare.-- "Iperstoria" Review Quote John Fantes Ask the Dust confirms the extent to which Fantes work has influenced and inspired the work of so many others through the decades and to this day. He does belong on the big bookshelf of accomplished American authors, neatly tucked in before Faulkner and followed by the likes of Fitzgerald and Frost. Competing Titles Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta, Personal Effect: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo (Fordham, 2014 & 2019) Teresa Fiore, Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italys Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies (Fordham, 2017) Luisa Del Giudice, Sabato Rodias Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development (Fordham, 2014) Feature The rich potential of an overlooked masterpiece is on full display in this set of beautifully written essays, personal reflections, and documentary surprises that comprise this groundbreaking collection on John Fantes Ask the Dust. Description for Sales People The rich potential of an overlooked masterpiece is on full display in this set of beautifully written essays, personal reflections, and documentary surprises that comprise this groundbreaking collection on John Fantes Ask the Dust. Details ISBN0823287866 Pages 288 Publisher Fordham University Press Series Critical Studies in Italian America Year 2020 ISBN-10 0823287866 ISBN-13 9780823287864 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2020-04-07 Imprint Fordham University Press Subtitle A Joining of Voices and Views Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Edited by Clorinda Donato DEWEY 813.52 Short Title John Fantes Ask the Dust Language English UK Release Date 2020-04-07 Illustrations 36 AU Release Date 2020-04-07 NZ Release Date 2020-04-07 US Release Date 2020-04-07 Author Daniel Gardner Birth 1936 Affiliation Spore Federation Of Chinese Clan Associations, Spore Position Graduate Student Qualifications University of Virginia Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131534363;

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