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  1. A Cross-cultural, Trans-generational Portrait of Italian-Canadians in Adriana Monti’s Two Short Films

    A Cross-cultural, Trans-generational Portrait of Italian-Canadians in Adriana Monti’s Two Short Films

    Article | Contributor(s): Anna Foschi Ciampolini

    Adriana Monti is an Italian-Canadian independent producer, feminist filmmaker and author. She started her career in Italy in the late 1970s by developing a collaborative and experimental style that allowed the women object of her research to take an active and creative role in her films. This...

  2. George Amabile on War, Trauma, the Creative Process, and His Latest Collection Martial Music

    George Amabile on War, Trauma, the Creative Process, and His Latest Collection Martial Music

    Article | Contributor(s): Liana Cusmano

    Liana Cusmano’s interview with poet George Amabile focuses on his prize-winning 2018 collection Martial Music and the art of writing in general. He offers insights on the poetic process, how to research and produce a collection of poems. Amabile’s poetry is inspired by what he has experienced or...

  3. Foreword

    Foreword

    Article | Contributor(s): Salvatore Bancheri

  4. Preface

    Preface

    Article | Contributor(s): Frank Iacobucci

  5. Introduction

    Introduction

    Article | Contributor(s): Gabriel Niccoli

  6. Acknowledgements

    Acknowledgements

    Article | Contributor(s): Gabriel Niccoli

  7. Dedica (A nonno Peppino Niccoli)

    Dedica (A nonno Peppino Niccoli)

    Article | Contributor(s): Gabriel Niccoli

  8. Figure, usi, e paradossi della nostalgia

    Figure, usi, e paradossi della nostalgia

    Article | Contributor(s): Vito Teti

  9. Appunti su nostos e letteratura (italo-canadese)

    Appunti su nostos e letteratura (italo-canadese)

    Article | Contributor(s): Francesco Loriggio

  10. Nostos, Nostalgia and Italian Migration

    Nostos, Nostalgia and Italian Migration

    Article | Contributor(s): Franc Sturino

    The Italian immigrant experience in North America is discussed in relation to the concepts of nostos and nostalgia. The first term, normally referring to the return home from a sea voyage, is discussed comparing the foundational account of nostos, the Odyssey, with the early sojourn phase of...

  11. Nostos and Nineteenth-Century Italian-Canadian Immigration: Mapping the Earliest Latin Quarters

    Nostos and Nineteenth-Century Italian-Canadian Immigration: Mapping the Earliest Latin Quarters

    Article | Contributor(s): Roberta Cauchi-Santoro

    In this article, I examine the formation of the first Latin Quarter in London (ON) at the end of the nineteenth century, and thus at the dawn of modernity. I analyse how these first (mostly Southern) Italian immigrants attempted to soothe their need for a sense of belonging, how they negotiated...

  12. I movimenti del ritorno nell’esperienza dei migranti italiani in Canada
  13. Nonna's Spiritual Journey Back Home

    Nonna's Spiritual Journey Back Home

    Article | Contributor(s): Raymond Culos

    This is a story of a young bride, typical of many Italian women of her generation, who struggled with the proposition of having to leave all she knew and loved behind to join her husband and a new life in ‘America’. Threading this common story of emigration, journeying, and settling, however, are...

  14. Un nostos “diplomatico”: i miei tanti ritorni

    Un nostos “diplomatico”: i miei tanti ritorni

    Article | Contributor(s): Tullio Guma

  15. Dal Mediterraneo all’Atlantico: ricordi di migrazione nella Montréal del secondo dopoguerra
  16. Un viaggio nel mio nostos. La comunità siciliana globale di Delia tra tradizioni, teatro, dialetto ed italiese
  17. And My Immigrant Ship Sails On: Returning on Deck with Ricci’s Lives of the Saints Trilogy

    And My Immigrant Ship Sails On: Returning on Deck with Ricci’s Lives of the Saints Trilogy

    Article | Contributor(s): Gabriel Niccoli

    This article addresses the theme of nostos and of immigrant journeying by locating the author and his memories on the very liner Saturnia that brought, in an eerily fanciful quirk of fate, Ricci’s young protagonist and his mother to Canada. The writer frames his reading of Ricci’s Lives of the...

  18. Andate e ritorni nella trilogia di Nino Ricci

    Andate e ritorni nella trilogia di Nino Ricci

    Article | Contributor(s): Carmen Concilio

  19. Il lungo viaggio di Ricci: vicende di una traduzione

    Il lungo viaggio di Ricci: vicende di una traduzione

    Article | Contributor(s): Gabriella Iacobucci

  20. Fuga e ritorno: Italian-Canadian Narratives

    Fuga e ritorno: Italian-Canadian Narratives

    Article | Contributor(s): Joseph Pivato

    Many Italian-Canadian authors have been stimulated to explore their dual identity after a return trip to Italy. They confront the myth of nostalgia as an emotional blind-spot to the harsh realities of past miseria and present-day conflicts in Italian society. Women writers such as Mary di...