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...

Narratives of Nostos by Italian-Canadian Women

Article | Contributor(s): Licia Canton

We are privileged to read and write and share narratives of nostos that are inspired by our (grand)parents’ decision to emigrate. The return journey “home” shows a need to look to the past, towards one’s roots, in an attempt to better understand the present. This essay looks at representations of...

Italian Heritage and the Experience of Migration and Nostos in Canadian Poetry

Article | Contributor(s): Francesca Cadel

The article addresses the theme of nostos by referring to the journeys of three authors of Italian heritage: Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Mary di Michele, and Gianna Patriarca. Their poetry allows the possibility to revisit their journeys and to consider migration as a source of knowledge, and positive...

Locating the Traveller: Genni Gunn and Nostalgia on the Move

Article | Contributor(s): Sylvia Terzian, Veronica Austen

This paper analyzes the concept of nostos through a reading of Italian-Canadian writer Genni Gunn’s autobiographical travelogue Tracks: Journeys in Time and Place (2013) to show how its narratives of movement contest meanings of home and homecoming. Gunn initiates new ways of thinking about...

“And if Fiume were to Call?” The Impossible Return of Gianni Angelo Grohovaz

Article | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

While most Italian emigrants can return to their hometown whenever they wish, Italians from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia (areas that were ceded by Italy to Yugoslavia in the wake of World War Two) do not have that luxury. When they return home, they find that their hometown has changed dramatically...

Frammenti e digressioni sul nostos come ritualizzazione e culto della memoria ne Il sogno di Toloma di Nino Famà

Article | Contributor(s): Gabriel Niccoli

Mobility, Nostalgia, and Ethnic Identity: The Racalmutesi Experience in Canada, and Beyond

Article | Contributor(s): Sam Migliore

We are currently in an era characterized by rapid movement; movement of people, products, resources, and information both within and beyond national boundaries. In this paper, I examine the movement not only of Italians (and more specifically Racalmutesi) to Canada, but also of Canadian Italians...

I media italiani all’estero: questioni linguistico-educative tra nostos, tradizione, identità e nuove generazioni

Article | Contributor(s): Simone Casini

Photography and the Concept of Return: A Personal View

Article | Contributor(s): Vincenzo Pietropaolo

As a photographer of the immigrant experience, the yearning for return to a homeland has been a central theme of my research. In this paper, I explore both my personal and collective experience of displacement and uprooting (Not Paved with Gold), the annual return to Canada of temporary migrant...