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And My Immigrant Ship Sails On: Returning on Deck with Ricci’s Lives of the Saints Trilogy

Contributor(s): Gabriel Niccoli

This article addresses the theme of nostos and of immigrant journeying by locating the author and his memories on the very liner Saturnia that brought, in an eerily fanciful quirk of fate, Ricci’s young protagonist and his mother to Canada. The writer frames his reading of Ricci’s Lives of the...

Andate e ritorni nella trilogia di Nino Ricci

Contributor(s): Carmen Concilio

Il lungo viaggio di Ricci: vicende di una traduzione

Contributor(s): Gabriella Iacobucci

Fuga e ritorno: Italian-Canadian Narratives

Contributor(s): Joseph Pivato

Many Italian-Canadian authors have been stimulated to explore their dual identity after a return trip to Italy. They confront the myth of nostalgia as an emotional blind-spot to the harsh realities of past miseria and present-day conflicts in Italian society. Women writers such as Mary di...

Narratives of Nostos by Italian-Canadian Women

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...

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

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...

Locating the Traveller: Genni Gunn and Nostalgia on the Move

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...

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

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...

Frammenti e digressioni sul nostos come ritualizzazione e culto della memoria ne Il sogno di Toloma di Nino Famà

Contributor(s): Gabriel Niccoli

Mobility, Nostalgia, and Ethnic Identity: The Racalmutesi Experience in Canada, and Beyond

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...

I media italiani all’estero: questioni linguistico-educative tra nostos, tradizione, identità e nuove generazioni

Contributor(s): Simone Casini

Photography and the Concept of Return: A Personal View

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...

Dante's Other Ugolinos

Contributor(s): Marilyn Schneider

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

Contributor(s): Gian Piero Maragoni

Progress: Croce, Gramsci, and Leopardi

Contributor(s): Mary Russo

Le "lingue per elaborazione" (LE) a base italiana o italo-romanza in un modello socio-linguistico

Contributor(s): Zarko Muljacic

Riprese dantesche nelle Chroniche de la città de Anchona di G.M. Filelfo

Contributor(s): Pietro Frassica

Dramatic Theory in the Prologues of Giovan Maria Cecchi

Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler