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  1. Narratives of Nostos by Italian-Canadian Women

    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...

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

    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...

  3. Locating the Traveller: Genni Gunn and Nostalgia on the Move

    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...

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

    “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...

  5. Frammenti e digressioni sul nostos come ritualizzazione e culto della memoria ne Il sogno di Toloma di Nino Famà
  6. Mobility, Nostalgia, and Ethnic Identity: The Racalmutesi Experience in Canada, and Beyond

    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...

  7. I media italiani all’estero: questioni linguistico-educative tra nostos, tradizione, identità e nuove generazioni
  8. Photography and the Concept of Return: A Personal View

    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...

  9. Dante's Other Ugolinos

    Dante's Other Ugolinos

    Article | Contributor(s): Marilyn Schneider

  10. Aminta dalle selve alle arene. Mìoscopia sull' Alceo di Antonio Ongaro

    Aminta dalle selve alle arene. Mìoscopia sull' Alceo di Antonio Ongaro

    Article | Contributor(s): Gian Piero Maragoni

  11. Progress: Croce, Gramsci, and Leopardi

    Progress: Croce, Gramsci, and Leopardi

    Article | Contributor(s): Mary Russo

  12. Le "lingue per elaborazione" (LE) a base italiana o italo-romanza in un modello socio-linguistico
  13. Riprese dantesche nelle Chroniche de la città de Anchona di G.M. Filelfo
  14. Dramatic Theory in the Prologues of Giovan Maria Cecchi

    Dramatic Theory in the Prologues of Giovan Maria Cecchi

    Article | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

  15. Tessere mariniane

    Tessere mariniane

    Article | Contributor(s): Paolo Cherchi

  16. Scriptor et "Lector in fabula" ne Il nome della rosa di Umberto Eco
  17. Review of Public Life in Renaissance Florence

    Review of Public Life in Renaissance Florence

    Review | Contributor(s): Kenneth R. Bartlett

  18. Review of L'enciclopedismo italiano: Gianfrancesco Pivati

    Review of L'enciclopedismo italiano: Gianfrancesco Pivati

    Review | Contributor(s): Paolo Cherchi

  19. Review of Romanzi e romanzieri del Seicento

    Review of Romanzi e romanzieri del Seicento

    Review | Contributor(s): Antonio Franceschetti

  20. Review of La scrittura verbo-visiva. Le avanguardie del Novecento tra parola e immagine