This collection gathers a diverse set of critical, personal, and artistic reflections on the trials and epiphanies of Fante's bio-fictive hero, Arturo Bandini, as he makes his way through the dust and dread of 1939 Los Angeles. As his quest for love and compassion turns to ethnic questioning and scorn, Fante's protagonist comes alive for new audiences who see now what Fante saw then: the "sad flower in the sand" that resides within us all.
This collection gathers a diverse set of critical, personal, and artistic reflections on the trials and epiphanies of Fante's bio-fictive hero, Arturo Bandini, as he makes his way through the dust and dread of 1939 Los Angeles. As his quest for love and compassion turns to ethnic questioning and scorn, Fante's protagonist comes alive for new audiences who see now what Fante saw then: the "sad flower in the sand" that resides within us all.
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.
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Introduction 1 1. New Approaches to John Fante's Ask the Dust From the Particular to the Universal: Vittorini's Italian Adaptation of Ask the Dust 15 Valerio Ferme When Spirituality Ebbs and Flows: Religion and Diasporic Alienation in Ask the Dust 43 Suzanne Manizza Roszak "Sad Flower in the Sand": Camilla Lopez and the Erasure of Memory in Ask the Dust 58 Meagan Meylor "A Ramona in Reverse": Writing the Madness of the Spanish Past in Ask the Dust 83 Daniel Gardner 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 111 J'aime Morrison Ask the Lyrics: John Fante in Music 127 Chiara Mazzucchelli Watch Out or You'll End up in My Novel: The Lost World of Ask the Dust 145 Robert Guffey Don't Ask the French 157 Philippe Garnier 3. Ask the Dust and Its Effects: Readers and Writers Respond Amid the Dust 167 Miriam Amico The Passion That Became a Festival 177 Giovanna DiLello I Had Bandini: Reading Ask the Dust in Prison 193 Joel Williams Writing in the Dust 201 Alan Rifkin How Hitler Nearly Destroyed the Great American Novel 213 Ryan Holiday 4. Ask the Dust and Its Due: Two Filmmakers and Bukowski Pay Tribute Interview with Robert Towne 237 Nathan Rabin Letters from Los Angeles 245 Jan Louter "My Dear Bukowski," "Hello John Fante": Preface to Ask the Dust 261 John Fante and Charles Bukowski 5. The Attic, the Archive, and Beyond From Family to Institutional Memory: A Conversation with Stephen Cooper 273 Teresa Fiore Prelude to "Prologue to Ask the Dust" 281 Stephen Cooper Goodbye, Bunker Hill 290 John Fante The Road to John Fante's Los Angeles 296 Stephen Cooper Acknowledgments 315 List of Contributors 319 Bibliography 325 Index 331
Introduction 1 1. New Approaches to John Fante's Ask the Dust From the Particular to the Universal: Vittorini's Italian Adaptation of Ask the Dust 15 Valerio Ferme When Spirituality Ebbs and Flows: Religion and Diasporic Alienation in Ask the Dust 43 Suzanne Manizza Roszak "Sad Flower in the Sand": Camilla Lopez and the Erasure of Memory in Ask the Dust 58 Meagan Meylor "A Ramona in Reverse": Writing the Madness of the Spanish Past in Ask the Dust 83 Daniel Gardner 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 111 J'aime Morrison Ask the Lyrics: John Fante in Music 127 Chiara Mazzucchelli Watch Out or You'll End up in My Novel: The Lost World of Ask the Dust 145 Robert Guffey Don't Ask the French 157 Philippe Garnier 3. Ask the Dust and Its Effects: Readers and Writers Respond Amid the Dust 167 Miriam Amico The Passion That Became a Festival 177 Giovanna DiLello I Had Bandini: Reading Ask the Dust in Prison 193 Joel Williams Writing in the Dust 201 Alan Rifkin How Hitler Nearly Destroyed the Great American Novel 213 Ryan Holiday 4. Ask the Dust and Its Due: Two Filmmakers and Bukowski Pay Tribute Interview with Robert Towne 237 Nathan Rabin Letters from Los Angeles 245 Jan Louter "My Dear Bukowski," "Hello John Fante": Preface to Ask the Dust 261 John Fante and Charles Bukowski 5. The Attic, the Archive, and Beyond From Family to Institutional Memory: A Conversation with Stephen Cooper 273 Teresa Fiore Prelude to "Prologue to Ask the Dust" 281 Stephen Cooper Goodbye, Bunker Hill 290 John Fante The Road to John Fante's Los Angeles 296 Stephen Cooper Acknowledgments 315 List of Contributors 319 Bibliography 325 Index 331
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