Friday, October 10, 2003
Book:"Peasant and the Pen, Men,
Enterprise, and the Recovery of Culture..."
The ANNOTICO Report
George Guida states: Often portrayed as criminals or amoral
opportunists, Italian American men have been among the most
misrepresented and misunderstood groups of the past century.
So true. I look forward to reading the book to determine if Guida
idicts the Feminist Italian Americans, who in my opinion have been the
worst of the more recent Italian American Male "bashers".
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Thanks to H-ITAM, Dom Candeloro, Editor
" The Peasant and the Pen, Men, Enterprise, and the Recovery of Culture
in Italian American Narrative"
By George Guida
Peter Lang. American Universitiy Studies, Series XXIV,
American Literature, Vol. 75
Presentation
Wednesday, October 29, 2003 at 6 pm
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò,
24 West 12th St. Manhattan
Free admission
Info 212-998-3862
Often portrayed as criminals or amoral opportunists, Italian American
men have been among the most misrepresented and misunderstood groups of
the past century.
THE PEASANT AND THE PEN provides a deeper understanding of Italian
American manhood through careful readings of Italian, Italian
American,and other narrative texts. Beginning with an analysis of
Giovanni Verga's late-nineteenth-century Sicilian peasant tales, Guida
follows the journey of Italian American men as depicted in
Horatio's Alger's rags-to-riches stories, immigrant autobiographies,
John Fante's realistic novels of first-generation male angst, and
Anthony Valerio's narratives of the struggle for personal and cultural
identity in contemporary America.
"George Guida's book brings the critical and cultural study of
Italian-American literature to a new level. It identifies a tradition
and traces its evolution, using the tools of both history and personal
history. It makes an eloquent and important contribution to a
burgeoning new field."
-----------------------------------------------------Morris Dickstein,
CUNY Graduate Center
George Guida is assistant professor of English at New York City College
of Technology of the City University of New York, and lecturer in
Italian American and Immigrant Studies at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook. He received his Ph.D. in English from the City
University of New York Graduate School. A longtime member of IAWA,
Guida has published scholarly articles, short stories, ands poems in
numerous journals and collections.