Pietro Di Donato: Selected Bibliography


 

Christ in Concrete (novel). 1939. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966.

This Woman (novel) New York: Ballantine Books, 1959.

Three Circles of Light (novel). New York: Julian Messner, 1960.

Immigrant Saint: The Life of Mother Cabrini (biography), 1960. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.

The Penitent (biography). New York: Prentice Hall, 1962.

Naked Author (selected writings). New York: Phaedra, 1970.

 

Critical Articles

Barbato, Joseph. “A Thinking Man Whose University was the Streets.” Italian American Identity. Februrary 1977: 20-21.

Boelhower, William. “The Immigrant Novel as Genre.” MELUS. 8.1 (Spring 1981): 3-13.

Bondanella, Peter. “Edward Dmytrk’s Christ in Concrete and Italian Neorealism.” Rivista di studi ango-americani 3.4-5 (1984-5): 227-40.

Coles, Nicholas. “Mantraps: Men at Work in Pietro Di Donato’s Christ in Concrete and Thomas Bell’s Out of this Furnace.” MELUS. 14.3-4 (1987): 23-32.

Esposito, Michael D. “The Evolution of Pietro Di Donato’s Perceptions of Italian Americans.” The Italian Americans Through the Generations. Proceedings of the XV Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association. Ed. Rocco Caporale. Staten Island: American Italian Historical Association, 1986. 176-184.

___. “The Travail of Pietro Di Donato.” MELUS 7.2 (1980): 47-60.

___. “Pietro Di Donato Reevaluated.” Italian Americana 6.2 (1980): 179-192.

Gardaphe, Fred L. “Italian/American Fiction: A Third Generation Renaissance.” MELUS. 14.3-4 (1987): 69-85.

Green, Rose Basile. “Pietro Di Donato.” Dictionary of Literary Biography. 9. Ed. James J. Martine. Detroit: Gale Research, 1981. 213-17.

___. “Pietro Di Donato.” The Italian-American Novel: A Document of the Interaction of Two Cultures. Rutheford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1974. 150-57.

Mulas, Franco. “The Ethnic Language of Pietro Di Donato’s Christ in Concrete.” From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana. Eds. Anthony J. Tamburri, et. al. West Lafayette, IN: Purude University Press, 1991. 307-15.

Orsini, Daniel. “Rehabilitating Di Donato, A Phonocentrist Novelist.” The Melting Pot and Beyond: Italian Americans in the Year 2000. Proceedings of the XVII Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association. Eds. Jerome Krase and William Egelman. 1987. 191-205.

Peragallo, Olga. Italian-American Authors and Their Cotributions to American Literature. New York: S.F. Vanni, 1949.

Sinicropi, Giovanni. “Christ in Concrete.” Italian Americana. 3.2 (Spring/Summer 1977): 175-83.

Vecoli, Rudolph J. “The Italian-American Literary Subculture: An Historical and Sociological Analysis.” The Italian-American Novel. Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association. Ed. John F. Cammett. Staten Island, N.Y.: America Historical Association, 1969.

Viscusi, Robert. “Circles of the Cyclopes: Schemes of Recognition in Italian American Discourse.” Italian Americans: New Perspectives in Italian Imigration and Ethnicity. Ed. Lydio Tomasi. Staten Island, NY: Center for Migration Studies, 1986: 209-219.

___. “Il Caso della Casa: Stories of Houses in Italian America.” The Family and Community Life of Italian Americans. Proceedings of the XIII Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association. Ed. Richard J. Juliani. Staten Island: American Italian Historical Association, 1983. 1-10.

___. “ ‘De Vulgari Eloquentia’: An Approach to the Language of Italian American Fiction.” Yale Italian Studies. 1 (Winter 1981): 21-38.

___. “ ‘The Semiology of Semen’: Questioning the Father.” The Italian Americans Through the Generations. Proceedings of the XV Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association. Ed. Rocco Caporale. Staten Island: American Italian Historical Association, 1986. 185-95.

___. “Text in the Dust: Writing Italy across America.” Studi emigrazione. 19.65 (1982): 123-30.

 

Interviews

Gardaphe, Fred L. “Reprint May Signal Di Donato Revival. Fra Noi. (September 1991): 27.

Johnson, Tom. “Pietro Di Donato Reflects on the Wisdom of Labor.” Fra Noi. 25 (September 1985): 27+.

von Huene-Greenberg: “A MELUS Interview: Pietro Di Donato. MELUS. 14.3-4 (1987): 33-52.

 

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“Pietro di Donato.” Contemporary Authors. 101. Ed. Frances C. Locher. Detroit: Gale Research, 1981. 141-2.