Duologue
Subtitle: on culture and identity
By: Antonio D'Alfonso, Pasquale Verdicchio.
Contributors: Verdicchio, Pasquale, 1954-
Series: Essay series ;; 15; Essay series (Guernica (Firm)) ;; 15.
Publisher: Guernica
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: D'Alfonso, Antonio, 1953-  -- Interviews.; Verdicchio, Pasquale, 1954-  -- Interviews.; Authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Interviews.; Italians -- Canada -- Intellectual life.; Group identity -- Canada.
Description: In San Diego, California, between June 15 and June 17, 1996, two writers sit before a microphone and exchange ideas on a number of burning issues which they both had to deal with for over twenty years. Literature, the politics of publishing, identity, culture, post-emigrant culture, ethnicity, pluriculturalism, Americanism, Canadianism, nationalism, the use of writers' associations: these are some of the themes that Antonio D'Alfonso and Pasquale Verdicchio tackle in this casual yet intense duologue.

More than just a leisurely dialogue, this essay as conversation is a labyrinth of serious thinking that questions many false notions that are being presented in media today.