This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante's 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work's present and future impact. The contributors to this work--writers, critics,...
more
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
Inter-library loan:
Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante's 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work's 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 Fante's 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 Fante's "Ask the Dust": A Joining of Voices and Views is destined for landmark status as the first volume of Fante studies to reveal the novel's evolving intertextualities and intersectionalities.
New approaches to John Fante's Ask the dust. from the particular to the universal : Vittorini's Italian adaptation of Ask the dust / Valerio Ferme -- When spirituality ebbs and flows : religion and diasporic alienation in Ask the dust / Suzanne Manizza Roszak -- "Sad flower in the sand" : Camilla Lopez and the erasure of memory in Ask the dust / Meagan Meylor -- "A Ramona in reverse" : writing the madness of the Spanish past in Ask the dust / Daniel Gardner -- Sibling arts : Ask the dust in dance, music, the graphic novel, and French. dancing with the dust : translating Ask the dust to the stage / J'aime Morrison -- Ask the lyrics : John Fante in music / Chiara Mazzucchelli -- Watch out or you'll end up in my novel : the lost world of Ask the dust / Robert Guffey -- Don't ask the French / Philippe Garnier -- Ask the dust and its effects : readers and writers respond. amid the dust / Miriam Amico -- The passion that became a festival / Giovanna DiLello -- I had Bandini : reading Ask the dust in prison / Joel Williams -- Writing in the dust / Alan Rifkin -- How Hitler nearly destroyed the great American novel / Ryan Holiday -- Ask the dust and its due : two filmmakers and bukowski pay tribute. interview with Robert Towne / Nathan Rabin -- Letters from Los Angeles / Jan Louter -- "My dear Bukowski," "Hello John Fante" : preface to Ask the dust / John Fante and Charles Bukowski -- The attic, the archive, and beyond. from family to institutional memory : a conversation with Stephen Cooper / Teresa Fiore -- Prelude to "Prologue to Ask the dust" / Stephen Cooper -- Goodbye, Bunker Hill / John Fante -- The road to John Fante's Los Angeles / Stephen Cooper
