Moustache Pete Is Dead!: Evviva Baffo Pietro!

by Fred Gardaphe

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781884419133
Publisher:	Bordighera Press
Publication date:	01/01/1997
Series:	Via Folios Series , #13
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.40(d)