Forgotten Italians
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"To date, it’s simply the best, most absorbing work about Italians in Canada, about the varied local narratives their presence can give rise to, as well as about the broader intellectual and cultural reflections that presence can foster."
» Francesco Loriggio, Carleton University, <em>Italian Canadiana</em>
Scholarship on Italian emigration has generally omitted the Julian-Dalmatians, a group of Italians from Istria and Dalmatia, two regions that, in the wake of World War Two, were ceded by Italy to Yugoslavia as part of its war reparations to that country. Les mer
This ground-breaking collection of articles from an international team of scholars opens the discussion on these “forgotten Italians” by briefly reviewing the history of their diaspora and then by examining the literary and artistic works they produced as immigrants to Canada. Forgotten Italians offers new insights into such celebrated authors as Diego Bastianutti, Mario Duliani, Caterina Edwards, and Gianni Angelo Grohovaz, as well as visual artists such as Vittorio Fiorucci and Silvia Pecota. Profoundly marked by the experience of being uprooted and forced into exile, by life in refugee camps, and by the encounter with a new culture, first-generation Julian-Dalmatians in Canada used art and writing to come to terms with their anguished situation and to rediscover their cultural roots.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Toronto Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781487504021
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
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"To date, it’s simply the best, most absorbing work about Italians in Canada, about the varied local narratives their presence can give rise to, as well as about the broader intellectual and cultural reflections that presence can foster."
» Francesco Loriggio, Carleton University, <em>Italian Canadiana</em>
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"An important scholarly contribution to both Canadian and Italian Canadian studies."
» Cristina Caracchini, Western University, <em>University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018</em>