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.