{"title":"Ask the Lyrics:","authors":"C. Mazzucchelli","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv102bj6q.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv102bj6q.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":347092,"journal":{"name":"John Fante's Ask the Dust","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124806573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.1515/9780823287888-003
S. Roszak
In recent scholarship on the work of John Fante, issues of spirituality and the sacred have not been a popular emphasis. Yet in Ask the Dust spirituality is intrinsically tied to representations of the Italian diasporic experience in the United States, including social alienation and selective accommodation, two key concepts in diaspora theory. Despite his self-professed Americanism, Fante’s protagonist Arturo Bandini faces alienation by members of Los Angeles’s white majority, and he hesitates to adopt entirely the social mores of this culture into which he has thrust himself. The ensuing ebb and flow of his spirituality becomes a barometer of both of these experiences. Bandini’s skepticism about organized religion and even the existence of God marks his attempts to shake off his Italian cultural inheritance and accommodate the norms of secular, consumerist America. At the same time, he exhibits almost violent bursts of investment and pride in Catholic doctrine and culture that indicate the depth of his alienation in 1930s Los Angeles. Tracing this ebb and flow of investment in the sacred allows us to reach a more nuanced understanding of both the novel and the Italian diasporic experience in the United States.
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Written soon after Ask the Dust appeared in late 1939, this little-known piece of non-fiction by John Fante appeared in the Los Angeles Times. In it, Fante reminisces about his early days in Los Angeles, those days in the early 1930s when he was young and broke and often hungry but filled with dreams of literary greatness. He presents a gallery of character sketches of the people he lived amidst, from the drunk who lived next door in Fante’s beloved Bunker Hill rooming house to the generous Japanese grocer at Grand Central Market. Filled with feeling for a lost time and cherished memories, this piece reveals a side of John Fante that will captivate readers who want to learn more about the author of Ask the Dust.
{"title":"Goodbye, bunker hill","authors":"J. Fante","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv102bj6q.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv102bj6q.22","url":null,"abstract":"Written soon after Ask the Dust appeared in late 1939, this little-known piece of non-fiction by John Fante appeared in the Los Angeles Times. In it, Fante reminisces about his early days in Los Angeles, those days in the early 1930s when he was young and broke and often hungry but filled with dreams of literary greatness. He presents a gallery of character sketches of the people he lived amidst, from the drunk who lived next door in Fante’s beloved Bunker Hill rooming house to the generous Japanese grocer at Grand Central Market. Filled with feeling for a lost time and cherished memories, this piece reveals a side of John Fante that will captivate readers who want to learn more about the author of Ask the Dust.","PeriodicalId":347092,"journal":{"name":"John Fante's Ask the Dust","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122005509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.1515/9780823287888-006
J’aime Morrison
This essay reconstructs the process of creating DUST, an original dance-theatre adaptation of John Fante’s novel Ask the Dust. The essay details the director’s work with student actors, faculty designers, and production team, and explores the methods used in the process of devising this adaptation. The performative relationship between movement and language, words and choreography, is emphasized throughout. Character analysis focusing on the tangled histories of Camilla and Arturo as outsiders suggests the persistence of loss that attends the experience of displacement caused by emigration, exile, and other such dislocations. The writing in the essay seeks to replicate the imaginative process of creating an embodied translation of this haunting novel.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823287864.003.0002
Valerio Ferme
This essay investigates Vittorini’s translation of Fante’s Ask the Dust into Italian as Il cammino nella polvere and the reasons why Vittorini decided to translate the Italian-American author at a time (1941) when Fascism’s rhetoric was becoming increasingly anti-American. With the help of theories of intercultural translation, Ferme evinces the choices Vittorini made in translating Ask the Dust and his tendency to move away from particular emotions toward abstraction and universal values. Transforming Fante’s original into an Italian version marked by strategic omissions and full rewritings, Vittorini made the work a key part of his ‘grand’ project of using new ethnic American writers like Fante to exemplify the mondo offeso (injured world) of the 1930s and 1940s. Ferme’s analysis illuminates the impact that Fante’s work had on a generation of Italian writers fighting fascist censorship and repression.
本文考察了维托里尼将凡特的《问尘》翻译成意大利语为Il cammino nella polvere的原因，以及为什么维托里尼决定在法西斯主义的修辞日益反美的时候(1941年)翻译这位意大利裔美国作家。借助跨文化翻译理论，Ferme论证了维托里尼在翻译《问尘》时所做的选择，以及他从特定情感转向抽象和普遍价值的倾向。维托里尼将凡特的原著改编为意大利版本，并进行了战略性的删减和全面的重写，使这部作品成为他“宏大”计划的重要组成部分，他利用像凡特这样的美国新族裔作家来阐释20世纪30年代和40年代受伤的世界。费尔梅的分析阐明了凡特的作品对一代反抗法西斯审查和镇压的意大利作家的影响。
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{"title":"From the Particular to the Universal:","authors":"Valerio Ferme","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv102bj6q.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv102bj6q.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":347092,"journal":{"name":"John Fante's Ask the Dust","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116012268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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