Pietro Di Donato was twelve years old when his Italian immigrant father was killed in a construction accident on Good Friday in 1923. As the oldest boy, Di Donato took his father's trowel and began supporting his seven brothers and sisters. Not until he became unemployed and went on relief did he have the leisure to study, read, and write about his experiences. The resulting Christ in Concrete, published in 1939, became an instant success. In 1960 he wrote the introduction to that work, Three Circles of Light, followed by Immigrant Saint, a life of Mother Cabrini; and The Penitent, a life of the man who killed Saint Maria Goretti. Currently Di Donato is finishing a work entitled The Gospels. Christ in Concrete was reprinted by Macmillan in 1985, and Immigrant Saint is due to be republished soon.
The following interview is from a series of meetings with Di Donato and his wife Helen, which took place January 12, February 12, and June 8, 1985, at his home on Strong's Neck, Long Island.
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A literary criticism of the novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," by Junot Diaz is presented. Topics include the novel's analogy of the position of a marginal and immigrant family to the dominant and normative Anglo-Saxon U.S. society, Diaz's position as a Dominican-American writer in a long tradition of diasporic Latino writing, and his use of other literary texts, particularly J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" and Jack and Stan Lee's "Fantastic Four."
Unlike the usual trauma situations, where narrative therapy could be utilized as a healing remedy, in diasporic context, the major errand of recalling memory for immigrants is constitution of a sense of 'self', that confirms with their national identity; and the chief mode of conveying this identity is via talk- stories. Although, recalled reminiscences are distorted and discontinuous but they facilitate the psychological redemption of afflicted trauma survivors. In the diasporic context, a distinctive stratagem is employed since there is not a will to talk with strangers in narrative therapy circles, by migrant trauma victims; this typical technique would secure a sense of national identity among migrants. This study is an investigation of a unique strategy of narrative therapy in diasporic context, in major novels of Amy Tan, as a second generation of Chinese migrants.
At a time when the American popular imagination is dominated by fun-house refractions of Arabs and Muslims as the ultimate “other,” it is critical
that these images be counterbalanced by unmediated, first-person, authentic reflections of the real-life experiences of writers of Middle Eastern
heritage. This is where fiction and narrative non-fiction occupy a privileged
position, creating an intimate, expansive space for empathy and
identification, and serving generality through specificity.
