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 nostos in the Italian-Canadian literary community, with an emphasis on narratives by women who were born in Italy as well as those whose (grand)parents emigrated to Canada. To varying degrees, the discussion will touch on the works of established and emerging authors from Ontario, Quebec and Alberta.

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• Canton, L., (2025), "Narratives of Nostos by Italian-Canadian Women", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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1. Canadian
2. heritage
3. Italian
4. Italian Canadiana
5. nostos
6. return
7. Women
8. writers

Original publication: Canton, Licia. "Narratives of Nostos by Italian-Canadian Women." Italian Canadiana 35: 2021. 201-214. DOI: 10.33137/ic.v35i0.37228. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Italian Canadiana. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Italian Canadiana under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.