Pub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.1515/9780823287888-012
Joel F. Williams
Williams recounts the true story of how he was well into his third decade of a 27-year-to-life prison sentence for murder when he discovered Ask the Dust. The gritty-poetic voice of the novel and its tragicomic treatment of the struggles of Arturo and Camila spoke so directly to him that his love of reading grew into a need to write, and he set to work crafting his own short stories. A serendipitous encounter with a visitor who put him in contact with Fante biographer Stephen Cooper turned into a long and transformative correspondence, mentorship, and friendship. The results: a book of short stories in French translation entitled Du sang dans les plumes, brought out in 2012 by the Paris publisher 13E Note Editions; and then, after 28 years behind bars, parole and freedom.
威廉姆斯讲述了一个真实的故事:当他发现《问尘》时，他已经进入了他因谋杀罪被判27年终身监禁的第三个十年。小说中充满诗意的声音，以及对阿图罗和卡米拉斗争的悲喜剧式处理，对他的影响如此直接，以至于他对阅读的热爱变成了写作的需要，他开始着手创作自己的短篇小说。与一位访客的偶然相遇使他与凡特传记作者斯蒂芬·库珀取得了联系，这变成了一段漫长而具有变革意义的通信、指导和友谊。结果是:巴黎出版社13E Note Editions于2012年出版了一本名为《Du sang dans les羽》的法语短篇小说集;然后，在监狱里呆了28年后，假释，自由了。
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In this elegant and insightful piece of literary journalism, Alan Rifkin offers a sweeping account of how John Fante’s Ask the Dust has come to be a touchstone among contemporary writers in Los Angeles and southern California and a wellspring of the region’s literature. Combining his own personal journey as a writer of fiction and non-fiction with a survey of the works of such authors as Steve Erickson, Carolyn See, Joan Didion, Salvador Plascencia, Kate Braverman, and others, Rifkin traces a line connecting all of them to Fante’s signature work and its dreamlike image of the metropolis: “Every Los Angeles writer at the outskirts of vision feels a connection to Ask the Dust, the 1939 novel that, more than any other, seems to weep over this city’s corpse in the ecstasy of possessing it.”
在这篇优雅而深刻的文学新闻中，艾伦·里夫金对约翰·凡特的《问尘》如何成为洛杉矶和南加州当代作家的试金石以及该地区文学的源泉进行了全面的描述。里夫金将自己作为小说和非小说作家的个人经历与史蒂夫·埃里克森、卡罗琳·西、琼·迪迪安、萨尔瓦多·普拉森西亚、凯特·布雷弗曼等作家的作品结合起来，追溯了一条将他们所有人与凡特的标志性作品及其梦幻般的大都市形象联系起来的线:“每一位身处视野边缘的洛杉矶作家都觉得自己与《问尘》(Ask the Dust)有某种联系。这部1939年的小说似乎比其他任何一部都更能让人在拥有这座城市的狂喜中，为这座城市的尸体哭泣。”
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Pub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823287864.003.0011
Giovanna DiLello
The John Fante Festival “Il dio di mio padre” started in 2006 in Torricella Peligna, a small town in the Maiella mountains of Italy’s Abruzzo province, where John Fante’s father Nick Fante was born. After making a 2003 documentary film about John Fante, Giovanna Di Lello founded and still directs the festival, which is organized by the municipality. In this essay the author explains her passion for John Fante and how over the years the festival has become a reference point for Fante enthusiasts around the world, featuring numerous writers, musicians, artists, and scholars from Italy, the United States, and elsewhere who come to pay homage to Fante and his works through lectures, concerts, and readings.
约翰·凡特音乐节“Il dio di mio padre”于2006年在意大利阿布鲁佐省Maiella山区的小镇Torricella Peligna举办，约翰·凡特的父亲尼克·凡特就是在那里出生的。在2003年拍摄了一部关于约翰·凡特的纪录片后，乔凡娜·迪·莱洛创立了这个电影节，并仍然是该电影节的导演，该电影节由市政府组织。在这篇文章中，作者解释了她对约翰·凡特的热情，以及多年来该节日如何成为世界各地凡特爱好者的参考点，吸引了来自意大利、美国和其他地方的众多作家、音乐家、艺术家和学者，他们通过讲座、音乐会和阅读向凡特及其作品致敬。
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Pub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823287864.003.0005
Dan Gardner
At the turn of the twentieth century, real estate boosters seeking to promote southern California drew upon the national popularity of Helen Hunt Jackson’s 1884 novel Ramona, in particular its fantasy of the Spanish past. The fantasy’s colonial discourse deployed stereotypes marked by an ambivalence that romanticized “going Spanish” even as it portrayed Mexican communities as burdens necessitating subjugation through various strategies including repatriation. John Fante’s Ask the Dust (1939) repudiates the stereotype of the colonial fantasy by critically mimicking the Spanish past. By reversing the discourse of Ramona, Ask the Dust exposes the imperialist nostalgia of the fantasy, recognizes the instability of the regional sense of colonial authority, protests the racial injustice of the discourse, and recuperates the voice of the Other that the fantasy seeks to silence.
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“Amidst the Dust” pays homage to the author’s personal experience conducting research for her MA thesis on Italian-American writer John Fante. Her two months spent in Los Angeles—the city where Fante set many of his literary works—were crucial to developing a richer understanding of Fante’s perception of his identity as a son of Italian immigrants. The essay focuses on the trove of treasures archived in the John Fante papers at UCLA Library Special Collections, detailing daily encounters with manuscripts and personal notes, and reflecting on the nature of ethnic identity while drawing parallels between Fante’s experiences (and those of his characters) and her own journey.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.1515/9780823287888-004
Meagan Meylor
While scholars of Ask the Dust have given considerable attention to the novel’s protagonist Arturo Bandini, his Mexican American love interest Camilla Lopez has been relatively neglected. Scholarship concerning Camilla has been limited to her destructive relationship with Arturo and her attempts at adopting Hollywood values. By foregrounding the figure of Camilla through the socio-historical lens of the marginalization and deportation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans during the 1930s, this chapter offers important insights into Fante’s novel, most notably in its treatment of ethnic identities within Los Angeles. It also provides a feminist reading of Ask the Dust by examining Fante’s treatment of working-class female subjectivity and of how Camilla’s recurring presence and absence draw attention to the Mexican past of Los Angeles, a history often erased in the city’s collective memory.
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