John Fante's Ask the Dust : : A Joining of Voices and Views / / ed. by Stephen Cooper, Clorinda Donato.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• MitwirkendeR: Amico, Miriam,; Bukowski, Charles,; Cooper, Stephen,; Di Lello, Giovanna,; DiLello, Giovanna,; Fante, John,; Ferme, Valerio,; Fiore, Teresa,; Gardner, Daniel,; Garnier, Philippe,; Guffey, Robert,; Holiday, Ryan,; Louter, Jan,; Mazzucchelli, Chiara,; Meylor, Meagan,; Morrison, J’aime,; Rabin, Nathan,; Rifkin, Alan,; Roszak, Suzanne Manizza,; Roszak, Suzanne,; Shain, Danny,; Towne, Robert,; Williams, Joel,
• HerausgeberIn: Cooper, Stephen,; Donato, Clorinda,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Studies in Italian America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 36

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—ana...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. New approaches to john fante’s ask the dust
• From the particular to the universal: Vittorini’s Italian adaptation of ask the dust
• Where spirituality ebbs and flows: religion and diasporic alienation in ask the dust
• “Sad flower in the sand”: Camilla Lopez and the erasure of memory in ask the dust
• “A Ramona in reverse”: writing the madness of the Spanish past in ask the dust
• 2. Sibling arts: ask the dust in dance, music, the graphic novel, and french
• Dancing with the dust: translating ask the dust to the stage
• Ask the lyrics: john fante in music
• Watch out or you’ll wind up in my novel: the lost world of ask the dust
• Don’t ask the french
• 3. Ask the dust and its effects: readers and writers respond
• Amid the dust
• John fante: the passion that became a festival
• I had bandini: reading ask the dust in prison
• Writing in the dust
• How Hitler nearly destroyed the great American novel
• 4. Ask the dust and its due: two filmmakers and bukowski pay tribute
• Interview with Robert Towne
• Letters from los angeles
• “My dear bukowski,” “hello john fante”: preface to ask the dust
• 5. The attic, the archive, and beyond
• From family to institutional memory: a conversation with Stephen cooper
• Prelude to “prologue to ask the dust”
• Goodbye, bunker hill
• The road to john fante’s los angeles
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Bibliography
• Index