The Relief Scandal In Montreal's Italian Community and Its Political Background: Fascio, Consulate and the Roman Catholic Parish of the Church of the Madonna della Difesa, October 1932-July 1933

Article | Contributor(s): Angelo Principe

The following essay is divided into three inter-woven parts. The first deals with the ravage of the Great Depression in Canada; the second explores the Canadian clerical and secular establishment's view of fascism and its local Italian proponents; the last part unravels the cozy collaboration in...

Beautifying the City: 1960s Artistic Mosaics by Italian Canadians in Toronto

Article | Contributor(s): Olga Zorzi Pugliese

Italian Canadian craftsmen deserve recognition for their contribution to the aesthetics of Toronto's architectural environment through their role in the production of mosaic artworks. After an early period in the 1930s (which witnessed the ROM and Foster Memorial projects) there was a second...

'Before the World Collapsed Because of the War': The City of Fiume in the Poetry of Gianni Angelo Grohovaz

Article | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

The article examines how the "native city" is constructed and remembered in the works of the Italian refugee and later emigrant, Gianni Angelo Grohovaz. Born in Fiume (Italy) in 1926, Grohovaz was forced to abandon his city when it was ceded, as spoils of war, to Yugoslavia. After eventually...

Les objets-signes chez Nino Ricci et Bianca Zagolin

Article | Contributor(s): Anne Marie Miraglia

Dans un nouveau pays, la présence d'objets familiers, dotés d'un sens spécial, réconfortent l'immigré et contribuent à la reconstruction dans son pays d'accueil d'un monde révolu et lointain. Cette analyse de deux romanciers canadiens d'origine...

A Self-Conscious Mise-en-scène: Experimenting with 'Disownment and Appropriation’

Article | Contributor(s): Anthony Cristiano

While the historical definition of experimental films as highly personal works, marked by unconventional economic and aesthetic norms remains fundamentally unchanged, the context within which they are produced has evolved through the years. This article argues that the contemporary forms of...

Review of The Harvest of a New Life: Documenting, Thinking and Representing the Italian-Canadian Experience

Review | Contributor(s): Anna Chiafele

Review of Italian Faces: Images of the Italian Community of Sudbury / Volti italiani: Immagini della comunità italiana di Sudbury

Review | Contributor(s): Cynthia De Luca

Review of Parole lontane: L'Istria nella sua storia e nel nostalgico ricordo di autori esuli.

Review | Contributor(s): Adriana Grimaldi

Review of Tra Napoli e New York. Le macchiette italo-americane di Eduardo Migliaccio. Testi con introduzione e glossario

Review | Contributor(s): Gianni Cicali

Review of L'emigrazione: come l'ho vista e come l'ho vissuta; Cuore ingrato. Pasqualino Gentilcuore

Review | Contributor(s): Cristina Caracchini

Review of Il cuore oltre l'Oceano

Review | Contributor(s): Henry Veggian

Review of A Friday in August

Review | Contributor(s): Paolo Chirumbolo

Review of Gambling with Failure

Review | Contributor(s): Nancy Pedri

Review of The Broken World: Poems 1967-1998

Review | Contributor(s): Sarah Melanie Rolfe

Review of Red Hook. Confessions of a Brooklyn Eaglet: 1939-1955

Review | Contributor(s): Stefano Giannini

Review of Per un pugno di terra / For a Fistful of Soil

Review | Contributor(s): Robert Buranello

Review of A Circular Journey

Review | Contributor(s): Caterina Edwards

Review of The immigrant's two souls. Le due anime dell'immigrante

Review | Contributor(s): Antonio Rossini

Review of Italian Women in Black Dresses; What My Arms Can Carry; Not Just a Personal Ad

Review | Contributor(s): Anne Urbancic

Review of Il lungo corridoio

Review | Contributor(s): Gabriella Colussi Arthur