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...

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...

Foreword

Article | Contributor(s): Salvatore Bancheri

Preface

Article | Contributor(s): Frank Iacobucci

Introduction

Article | Contributor(s): Gabriel Niccoli

Acknowledgements

Article | Contributor(s): Gabriel Niccoli

Dedica (A nonno Peppino Niccoli)

Article | Contributor(s): Gabriel Niccoli

Figure, usi, e paradossi della nostalgia

Article | Contributor(s): Vito Teti

Appunti su nostos e letteratura (italo-canadese)

Article | Contributor(s): Francesco Loriggio

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...

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...

I movimenti del ritorno nell’esperienza dei migranti italiani in Canada

Article | Contributor(s): Sonia Floriani

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...

Un nostos “diplomatico”: i miei tanti ritorni

Article | Contributor(s): Tullio Guma

Dal Mediterraneo all’Atlantico: ricordi di migrazione nella Montréal del secondo dopoguerra

Article | Contributor(s): Sergio Piraro

Un viaggio nel mio nostos. La comunità siciliana globale di Delia tra tradizioni, teatro, dialetto ed italiese

Article | Contributor(s): Salvatore Bancheri

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...

Andate e ritorni nella trilogia di Nino Ricci

Article | Contributor(s): Carmen Concilio

Il lungo viaggio di Ricci: vicende di una traduzione

Article | Contributor(s): Gabriella Iacobucci

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...