Background
Gardaphe, Fred Louis was born on September 7, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Fred William and Anna Julianna (Rotolo) Gardaphe.
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Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer (Essay Series 25)
( Since 1987, writer and critic Fred Gardaphe has regular...)
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.
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Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (New Americanists)
( In the first major critical reading of Italian American...)
In the first major critical reading of Italian American narrative literature in two decades, Fred L. Gardaphé presents an interpretive overview of Italian American literary history. Examining works from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, he develops a new perspective—variously historical, philosophical, and cultural—by which American writers of Italian descent can be read, increasing the discursive power of an ethnic literature that has received too little serious critical attention. Gardaphé draws on Vico’s concept of history, as well as the work of Gramsci, to establish a culture-specific approach to reading Italian American literature. He begins his historical reading with narratives informed by oral traditions, primarily autobiography and autobiographical fiction written by immigrants. From these earliest social–realist narratives, Gardaphé traces the evolution of this literature through tales of “the godfather” and the mafia; the “reinvention of ethnicity” in works by Helen Barolini, Tina DeRosa, and Carole Maso; the move beyond ethnicity in fiction by Don DeLillo and Gilbert Sorrentino; to the short fiction of Mary Caponegro, which points to a new direction in Italian American writing. The result is both an ethnography of Italian American narrative and a model for reading the signs that mark the “self-fashioning” inherent in literary and cultural production. Italian Signs, American Streets promises to become a landmark in the understanding of literature and culture produced by Italian Americans. It will be of interest not only to students, critics, and scholars of this ethnic experience, but also to those concerned with American literature in general and the place of immigrant and ethnic literatures within that wide framework.
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Fred Louis Gardaphe
Edit ProfileEducation
Associate of Arts, Triton College, 1973; Bachelor of Science in Education, University of Wisconsin, 1976; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1982; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, 1993.
Career
Instructor, Sun Prairie (Wisconsin) High School, 1976-1977; instructor, Mason City (Iowa) High School, 1977-1978; instructor, counselor, Prologue High School, Chicago, 1978-1981; teaching assistant Italian Department, University Chicago, 1981-1982; Professor of English, Columbia College, Chicago, since 1982. Freelance writer educational and commercial media, Chicago, since 1980.
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Works
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Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer (Essay Series 25)
( Since 1987, writer and critic Fred Gardaphe has regular...)
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Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (New Americanists)
( In the first major critical reading of Italian American...)
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New Chicago stories
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- The Italian-American writer: An essay and an annotated checklist
- (Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer) Author: Fred Gardaphe published on (January, 1997)
- Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer (Essay) by Fred Gardaphe (1996-08-01)
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Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer (Essay Series 25)
Membership
Board of directors, president Prologue Learning Center, Chicago, since 1989. Board directors Fra Noi Newspaper, since 1991, Illinois Ethnic Coalition, since 1995. Vice president Young Democrats of Proviso Township, Melrose Park, Illinois, 1970-1971.
Member Modern Language Association, Society for Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, American Association Italian Studies, National Writers Union, American Italian History Association (pres.1997-), Italian Cultural Center.
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Married Katharine Teeter, June 12, 1976 (divorced 1978). Married Susan Rose Stolder, September 18, 1982. Children: Frederico Carmen, Marianna Carmen.
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Roman Catholic
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1973
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1976
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1982
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1993
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1976 - 1977
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1977 - 1978
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1978 - 1981
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1978 - 1981
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1981 - 1982
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1982