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Francesco Durante

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Francesco Durante

Francesco Durante is the editor of Italoamericana. The Literature of the Great Migration (Fordham University Press). He is the author of several books published in Italy, and has translated works by various American writers (among them, John Fante, Bret Easton Ellis, Raymond Carver, and William Dean Howells). He teaches Italian American Studies at the Università Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples.

Articles by Francesco Durante

Italy and the Literature of Immigration
By Francesco Durante
Why has the memory of this body of literature been so appallingly suppressed in Italy?
Translated from Italian by Antony Shugaar