Duologue: On Culture & Identity (Essay Series) - Tapa blanda

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.

Pasquale Verdicchio is the Head of the Writing Program in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.