Fante

Author : Stephen Cooper,Clorinda Donato
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823287871

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John Fante's Ask the Dust by Stephen Cooper,Clorinda Donato Pdf

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. 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, J’aime Morrison, Nathan Rabin, Alan Rifkin, Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Danny Shain, Robert Towne, Joel Williams

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013002

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Ask the Dust by John Fante Pdf

Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and Bandini forever rejects the writer's life he fought so hard to attain.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013095

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John Fante Selected Letters 1932-1981 by John Fante Pdf

Fante's captivating letters trace his emergence from poverty to life as a Hollywood screenwriter. Complemented by many photos and interesting appendices, the book is most distinguished by Fante's letters to his mother-letters in which he is just as apt to lie about church attendance as he is to describe, with peculiar candor, skinny-dipping with a girl friend.

Author : Catherine J. Kordich
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015050742686

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John Fante by Catherine J. Kordich Pdf

Fante's depiction of the Italian American experience in California, in novels and novellas like Full of Life and My Dog Stupid, has been recognized as part of the national drama of assimilation and ethnicity. Kordich looks at the life and works of Fante, whose long underground fame has evolved into a mainstream literary readership.

Author : John Fante,Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015018503261

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Fante/Mencken by John Fante,Henry Louis Mencken Pdf

Author : Dan Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062027368

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Fante by Dan Fante Pdf

"Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw." —New York Times From Dan Fante, son of novelist John Fante, comes an exploration of his family’s legacy—one of boozing, passion, writing, and survival. Long before his father achieved literary recognition for Ask the Dust or The Road to Los Angeles, and before Dan had conceived his novels 86’d, Chump Change, and Mooch, their difficult relationship as father and son evolved in a household where love and literary artistry were often overshadowed by emotional violence. Fante is the story of Dan’s struggle to find his own voice amidst the madness of his family’s dark inheritance, a memoir of his escape from his own vices and his eventual return to Los Angeles to embrace the man—and the calling—that once had driven him away.

Author : Noah Van Sciver
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781683962854

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The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski by Noah Van Sciver Pdf

Collects all three volumes of the Eisner Award-nominated graphic novels series, which skewers a self-important male literary poser. Living in a beat-up motel and consorting with the downtrodden as well as the mid-level literati, Fante Bukowski must overcome great obstacles ― a love interest turned rival, ghostwriting a teen celebrity's memoirs, no actual talent ― to gain the respect and adoration from critics and, more importantly, his father. Van Sciver has created a scathing, hilarious, and empathetic character study of a self-styled author determined that he's just one more poem (or drink) away from success. The book includes a foreward by novelist Ryan Boudinot (Blueprints of the Afterlife), a facsimile reproduction of Bukowski's literary debut, 6 Poems (thought lost to time in the wake of a motel fire that destroyed the entire original print run), a "Works Cited" section, and a selection of "visual tributes" by over two dozen cartoonists including Nina Bunjevac, Simon Hanselmann, Jesse Jacobs, Ed Piskor, Leslie Stein, and others.

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013170

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Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante Pdf

He came along, kicking the snow. Here was a disgusted man. His name was Svevo Bandini, and he lived three blocks down that street. He was cold and there were holes in his shoes. That morning he had patched the holes on the inside with pieces of cardboard from a macaroni box. The macaroni in that box was not paid for. He had thought of that as he placed the cardboard inside his shoes.

Author : Rebecca Shumway
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580463911

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The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Rebecca Shumway Pdf

The history of Ghana attracts popular interest out of proportion to its small size and marginal importance to the global economy. Ghana is the land of Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-Africanist movement of the 1960s; it has been a temporary home to famous African Americans like W. E. B. DuBois and Maya Angelou; and its Asante Kingdom and signature kente cloth-global symbols of African culture and pride-are well known. Ghana also attracts a continuous flow of international tourists because of two historical sites that are among the most notorious monuments of the transatlantic slave trade: Cape Coast and Elmina Castles. These looming structures are a vivid reminder of the horrific trade that gave birth to the black population of the Americas. The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade explores the fascinating history of the transatlantic slave trade on Ghana's coast between 1700 and 1807. Here author Rebecca Shumway brings to life the survival experiences of southern Ghanaians as they became both victims of continuous violence and successful brokers of enslaved human beings. The era of the slave trade gave birth to a new culture in this part of West Africa, just as it was giving birth to new cultures across the Americas. The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade pushes Asante scholarship to the forefront of African diaspora and Atlantic World studies by showing the integral role of Fante middlemen and transatlantic trade in the development of the Asante economy prior to 1807. Rebecca Shumway is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh.

Author : Frederick Robert Irvine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Fish trade
ISBN : UCAL:$B68555

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The Fishes and Fisheries of the Gold Coast by Frederick Robert Irvine Pdf

Author : Dan Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061959295

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Chump Change by Dan Fante Pdf

When he finds out his father is in a coma, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante, fresh from the nuthouse, must head to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion in Dan Fante’s Chump Change. Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel, 86’d, Chump Change follows Bruno through the tension and stress of facing his family—and the inevitable, pain-dulling drinking that lands him naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet. Chump Change is “an honest misfit’s view of America far too few know.” (John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant’s Woman).

Author : Ghana. Census Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Ghana
ISBN : UIUC:30112054688046

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1960 Population Census of Ghana : Special Report by Ghana. Census Office Pdf

Author : Nancy Lundgren
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110401572

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Watch and Pray by Nancy Lundgren Pdf

The matrilineal Fante are members of one of the most populous ethnic groups in Ghana, the Akan. They are the dominant group in the Cape Coast area and have a long history in the region. They are Fanti speakers, but also speak the national language, which is English. This case study provides an intimate look at the Fante, who now reside in towns and villages, are predominantly Christian and earn their living primarily as traders, farmers and fishing people, but are found in all walks of life including: government officials, teachers, University professors, lawyers and doctors. The people of Akotokiyr and Abaasa and Nim want readers to know about their villages and the people associated with them because they represent a spirit and a tradition and a collaborative lifestyle that are rapidly changing. The book makes it possible for readers to become participants in the scene-be it in a home, a "palace" of a chief, a church, in the market place, or in the author's own home-where they can see firsthand the ways in which the new is being incorporated into the old. As the Series Editor says, "the blazing sun, the airless rooms with concrete block walls with roofs of sheet iron, the dust, flies, rough streets, the verdant forest, the streams the open, running sewers, all become habitats of our minds as we read of the author's interactions with people in the small villages where she is living and working."

Author : John Fante
Publisher : Rebel Incorporated Classics
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bandini, Arturo (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 1841950491

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The Road to Los Angeles by John Fante Pdf

Author : Stephen Cooper,Clorinda Donato
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823287888

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John Fante's Ask the Dust by Stephen Cooper,Clorinda Donato Pdf

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. 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, J’aime Morrison, Nathan Rabin, Alan Rifkin, Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Danny Shain, Robert Towne, Joel Williams