Description |
160 pages ; 24 cm |
Note |
Papers originally presented at the John Fante Conference, May 4-6, 1995, at California State University, Long Beach. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"A Fante bibliography": pages 153-154. |
Contents |
John Fante : the burden of modernism and the life of his mind / Jay Martin -- John Fante's American fantasia / Fred L. Gardaphe -- The protean ethnic identities of John Fante's Italian-American characters / Stefano Luconi -- "Oh God, these Italians!" : shame and self-hatred in the early fiction of John Fante / Donald Weber -- John Fante and the echo of social protest / Jean F. Béranger -- Masculinity and femininity in John Fante's "A wife for Dino Rossi" / Leonardo Buonomo -- Fante, family, and the fiction of confession / Richard Collins -- The Los Angeles booster myth, the anti-myth and John Fante's Ask the dust / Mark Laurila -- John Fante and the Los Angeles novel in the 1930s / David Fine -- In imagination of the past : Fante's Ask the dust as Italian-American modernism / George Guida -- Written like mad sonnets : the poetics of John Fante's prose / Grant Hier. |
Subject |
Fante, John, 1909-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
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Italian Americans in literature -- Congresses.
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Added Author |
Cooper, Stephen, 1949-
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Fine, David M., 1934-
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John Fante Conference (1995 : California State University, Long Beach)
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ISBN |
0838637787 alkaline paper |
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