An Ordinary Christian Workingman: The Diary of Raymond Dibello, A Worker-writer or the 1960s

• In Event: Scholar to Scholar II

Abstract

Raymond Dibello’s diary is a rare and unusual account of the intellectual formation and motivation of one particular worker-writer in the early 1960s. This paper argues that a rewarding reading of the diary can be gathered by a close reading that thinks with Dibello as an author and the disciplinary gesture involved in keeping a diary every year for five years, instead of about Dibello as just one of many within a category called worker.

Author

• Carleton Gholz, Univ of Pittsburgh