Moustache Pete Is Dead ― Evviva Baffo Pietro! (Long Live Moustache Pete!) : Italian/American Oral Tradition Preserved in Print ; The Fra Noi Columns, 1985-1988

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.