From Wiseguys to Wise Men: The Gangster and Italian American Masculinities

The gangster, in the hands of the Italian American artist, becomes a telling figure in the tale of American race, gender, and ethnicity - a figure that reflects the autobiography of an immigrant group just as it reflects the fantasy of a native population. From Wiseguys to Wise Men studies the figure of the gangster and explores its social function in the construction and projection of masculinity in the United States. By looking at the cultural icon of the gangster through the lens of gender, this book presents new insights into material that has been part of American culture for close to 100 years.

History

Gardaphe, Fred

Americas

Routledge

Since 1987, writer and critic Fred Gardaphe has regularly reviewed Italian/North American literature in Fra Noi, an Italian/American monthly newspaper based in Chicago. This volume features the best of 'Parole Scritte', his monthly columns. Introduced by an essay from which the collection gets its title, Dagoes Read is the first publication of its kind in the history of Italian/North American literature. It serves as a fine introduction to this literary movement as well as a survey of recent publications by Italian/North Americans. Works reviewed include those by Tony Ardiaone, Dorothy Bryant, Pietro di Donato, John Fante, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Frank Lentricchia, Jay Parini, Diane Raptosh, Gay Talese, Sal LaPuma, and many others.

Dagoes Read (Essay Series 25)

Reference

Guernica Editions

Fiction. A collection of newspaper columns written over a four-year span, MOUSTACHE PETE IS DEAD is an insightfully keen look into the world of the Italian immigrant. Through Pete's words, we come to understand the difficulties many immigrants and their progeny have often had in order to negotiate the dominant culture's misunderstanding of the immigrant's culture of origin. MOUSTACHE PETE IS DEAD calls for the birth of a smooth partnership between these two different cultures.

Moustache Pete is Dead: Evviva Baffo Pietro! The Fra Noi Columns 1985-1988 (VIA Folios)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Bordighera Press

Literary Nonfiction. The third collection of Fred Gardaphé's Fra Noi book reviews (2006-2016) continues a lifelong journey into Italian American literature—"choosing the literary life has been a lifetime gamble that might not pay off financially, but has always paid off intellectually."

Read 'Em and Reap: Gambling on Italian American Writing (VIA Folios)

Fiction. Italian Studies. A collection of newspaper columns written over a four-year span, Fred L.Gardaphe's MOUSTACHE PETE IS DEAD! is an insightful look into the world of the Italian immigrant. Through Pete's words, we come to understand the difficulties many immigrants and their progeny have often had in order to negotiate the dominant culture's misunderstanding of the immigrant's culture of origin. MOUSTACHE PETE IS DEAD! calls for the birth of a smooth partnership between these two different culture. "Fred Gardaphe maneuvers throughout the greater realm of critical discourse, engaging part methodological readings of ethnicity as well as more recent theoretical interlocutors and their predecessors of structuralism and post-structuralism" -Forum Italicum.

Moustache Pete Is Dead!: The Frai Noi Columns 1985-1988 (Via Folios, 13)

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From Wiseguys to Wise Men: The Gangster and Italian American Masculinities

From Wiseguys to Wise Men: The Gangster and Italian American Masculinities

Dagoes Read (Essay Series 25)

Moustache Pete is Dead: Evviva Baffo Pietro! The Fra Noi Columns 1985-1988 (VIA Folios)

Read 'Em and Reap: Gambling on Italian American Writing (VIA Folios)

Moustache Pete Is Dead!: The Frai Noi Columns 1985-1988 (Via Folios, 13)