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Acknowledgements

Article | Contributor(s): Delia De Santis

Introduction

Article | Contributor(s): Maria Cristina Seccia

Thirty Years of Italian-Canadian Writing and the AICW

Article | 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

Article | 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...

The Dynamics of Cultural Transition

Article | Contributor(s): Aldo Colangelo

The article is based on a 1991-92 research, published in Sole senza Sole (1998). In his book Colangelo retraced the journey and life of 110 Italian women, residing in Toronto. He followed the stages of their lives, successes and difficulties, including those arising from their retirement onwards....

Translating Migrations, (Re)Presenting Cultures in Transit: Licia Canton’s “The Motorcycle”

Article | Contributor(s): Luisa Marino

This essay investigates the relationship between the idea of movement and the concept of translation in Licia Canton’s short story “The Motorcycle” and in its Italian translation. The essay looks at translation both as a metaphor of negotiation and mediation that bridges two linguistic and...

Unmasking Motherhood: Journeys of Self-Discovery in Mary Melfi’s Italy Revisited: Conversations with My Mother and Genni Gunn’s Tracing Iris

Article | Contributor(s): Laura Rorato

This paper will explore how the quest for the mother (whether the missing one of Gunn’s novel or the living one of Melfi’s memoir) leads the protagonists of both books to rediscover their mother tongue, that is a language based on communication and community building (Parmod, 2008), or as Kate...

Multicultural Little Italy: A Literary Comparison of Canadian and US Urban Enclaves

Article | Contributor(s): Eva Pelayo Sañudo

Drawing on Paul Moses’ An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York’s Irish and Italians (2015), this article explores the history and literary reflection of multicultural cities. Particularly, Louisa Ermelino’s novel The Sisters Mallone (2002) challenges accepted views of certain urban...

Queer Appetites: Embodied Desire in Monica Meneghetti’s What the Mouth Wants

Article | Contributor(s): Domenico A. Beneventi

Drawing upon José Esteban Mufioz’s notion of queer futurity, this article examines the links between memory, food, and sexuality in Monica Meneghetti’s What the Mouth Wants: A Memoir of Food, Love and Belonging. The memoir depicts how embodiment and affect are imprinted in memory and recirculated...

What Does it Mean to Be White in America: My Multi-Metamorphoses

Article | Contributor(s): Gil Fagiani

Gil Fagiani is a storyteller by nature and by craft, both of which he employs in his essay My Muli-Metamorphoses, a version of which originally appeared in the anthology What Does it Mean to Be White in America (Two Leaf Press). Fagiani traces the dramatic arc of his transformation from a...

Cross My Heart

Article | Contributor(s): Eufemia Fantetti

Linked by a series of idiomatic expressions used to describe sadness, loss and love, “Cross My Heart” is a lyric essay delving into the world of journaling bad decisions and broken relationships. A deep and private self appears in diaries; intense curiosity makes resisting the off-limit contents...

Blindsided by the American Dream

Article | Contributor(s): Maria Lisella

In her essay “Shades, Color and Internal Dialogues in White America,” from which the present contribution is taken, Maria Lisella takes a savvy streetwise approach to balancing feminism with political consciousness. By sifting through the nuances and politics of her own body language in what...

The Motorcycle

Article | Contributor(s): Licia Canton

La moto

Article | Contributor(s): Licia Canton, Luisa Marino

Rules, Not to Be Broken

Article | Contributor(s): Licia Canton

Advice from a Brigantessa

Article | Contributor(s): Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli

“My Fears Dissolve / into Tranquil Blue”

Article | Contributor(s): Venera Fazio

A Family Secret

Article | Contributor(s): Nic Battigelli