An Interview with Mary Melfi

Contributor(s): John Lewis

Luca Codignola. Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic. Traders, Priests, and Their Kin Travelling Between North America and the Italian Peninsula. 1763-1846. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.

Contributor(s): Giovanni Scarola

Hermann W. Haller. Tutti in America: le guide per gli emigranti italiam: nel periodo del grande esodo. Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, 2017.

Contributor(s): Lisa Ferrante Perrone

Baldo, Michela. Italian-Canadian Narratives of Return. Analysing Cultural Translation in Diasporic Writing. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Contributor(s): Tiziana Nannavecchia

Bonavita, Lucilla. Valentino Zeichen: un uomo, un poeta. Voci polifoniche nell’opera del poeta ‘ribelle’. Avellino: Edizioni Sinestesie, 2018.

Contributor(s): Carmine Chiodo

Paola Breda and Marino Toppan. Land of Triumph and Tragedy: Voices of the Italian Fallen Workers. A Century of Italian Immigration to Canada: Immigrants Who Made It and Those Who Perished Trying. Toronto: Verità, 2019.

Contributor(s): Marco Lettieri

Marino Toppan. The Voice of Labour: A Life in Toronto’s Construction Industry. Foreword by Paola Breda. Introduction by Angelo Principe. Toronto: Frank Iacobucci Centre for Italian Canadian Studies, 2018. Reprint of the first edition published in 2004.

Contributor(s): Matteo Brera

Vito Teti, Francesco Loriggio. Stones into Bread (Loriggio, Francesco & Damiano Pietropaolo, Trans.). Toronto: Guernica World Editions, 2018 (Original work published in 2011).

Contributor(s): Alessandro Loss

Diana Iuele Colilli, Christine Sansalone. Le bocce della morte e Una famglia per ogni stagione. Ottawa: LEGAS, 2019.

Contributor(s): Mara Cristina Castellani

Rende, Francis. The Restorer and the Nun. Cambridge: Vanguard Press, 2016.

Contributor(s): Valentina Pigini

Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli, La Brigantessa. Toronto: Inanna Publications, 2018.

Contributor(s): Michelle Galati

Emilio di Giuseppe. Diario di un Tufaloro. Diary of a Tufaloro. Edited by Bruna Di Giuseppe and M.P. March. Translation by M.P. March. Toronto: Joye de Plume Book, 2018.

Contributor(s): Gianna Patriarca

Gasparini, Len. The Social Life of String. Victoria: Ekstasis Editions, 2018.

Contributor(s): Mohammad Jamali

Diego Bastianutti. The Lotus Eaters/I mangiatori di loto. Ottawa: Legas, 2019.

Contributor(s): Francesco Loriggio

Luisa Del Giudice, ed. On Second Thought: Learned Women Reflect on Profession, Community, and Purpose. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2017.

Contributor(s): Sonia Cancian

Foreword

Contributor(s): Salvatore Bancheri

Acknowledgements

Contributor(s): Delia De Santis

Introduction

Contributor(s): Maria Cristina Seccia

Thirty Years of Italian-Canadian Writing and the AICW

Contributor(s): Jim Zucchero

This essay offers an analysis of the past 30 years of activity in the Italian-Canadian literary community and examines the role of the AICW (Association of Italian-Canadian Writers) in supporting, disseminating and analyzing that literary production. It profiles the work of three important...

The Representation of Italy in Caterina Edwards’ The Sicilian Wife and Rita Ciresi’s Sometimes I Dream in Italian

Contributor(s): Maria Giuseppina Cesari

This paper wishes to explore how Caterina Edwards, an Italian Canadian writer, and Rita Ciresi, an Italian American writer, share a strong, although very different, personal and authorial relation to Italy and the Italian language. I shall be focusing on their similarities rather than...