Il satiro danzante di Mazara e l’antica Morgantina

Contributor(s): Emilio Sarli

Last Supper in Cori

Contributor(s): Pietro Vitelli

Smell of Roses at Night

Contributor(s): Delia De Santis

Michelle Alfano on Her Memoir, The Unfinished Dollhouse

Contributor(s): Liana Cusmano

Liana Cusmano’s interview with Toronto author Michelle Alfano offers reflections on gender identity and living through a child’s transitioning. The act of writing helped Alfano overcome the distress she felt during this difficult time. In her memoir The Unfinished Dollhouse, Michelle Alfano...

A Cross-cultural, Trans-generational Portrait of Italian-Canadians in Adriana Monti’s Two Short Films

Contributor(s): Anna Foschi Ciampolini

Adriana Monti is an Italian-Canadian independent producer, feminist filmmaker and author. She started her career in Italy in the late 1970s by developing a collaborative and experimental style that allowed the women object of her research to take an active and creative role in her films. This...

George Amabile on War, Trauma, the Creative Process, and His Latest Collection Martial Music

Contributor(s): Liana Cusmano

Liana Cusmano’s interview with poet George Amabile focuses on his prize-winning 2018 collection Martial Music and the art of writing in general. He offers insights on the poetic process, how to research and produce a collection of poems. Amabile’s poetry is inspired by what he has experienced or...

Foreword

Contributor(s): Salvatore Bancheri

Preface

Contributor(s): Frank Iacobucci

Introduction

Contributor(s): Gabriel Niccoli

Acknowledgements

Contributor(s): Gabriel Niccoli

Dedica (A nonno Peppino Niccoli)

Contributor(s): Gabriel Niccoli

Figure, usi, e paradossi della nostalgia

Contributor(s): Vito Teti

Appunti su nostos e letteratura (italo-canadese)

Contributor(s): Francesco Loriggio

Nostos, Nostalgia and Italian Migration

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

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

Contributor(s): Sonia Floriani

Nonna's Spiritual Journey Back Home

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

Contributor(s): Tullio Guma

Dal Mediterraneo all’Atlantico: ricordi di migrazione nella Montréal del secondo dopoguerra

Contributor(s): Sergio Piraro

Un viaggio nel mio nostos. La comunità siciliana globale di Delia tra tradizioni, teatro, dialetto ed italiese

Contributor(s): Salvatore Bancheri