Day: April 27, 2021

Patterns of Nostos in Italian Canadian Narratives ~ edited by Gabriel Niccoli

Patterns of Nostos in Italian Canadian Narratives ~ edited by Gabriel Niccoli

The articles in this volume study the manner in which patterns of nostos, of journeying and returning, in Italian Canadian narratives are both identified and deployed. The contributions span from diaspora and postcolonial studies to cultural sociology and anthropology, from literary criticism and semiotics to the history of immigration, from high ranking diplomacy to creative writing and documentary photography, and from comparative literature to translation. 

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Adriana A. Davies, From Sojourners to Citizens: Alberta’s Italian History. Guernica Editions, 2021

Adriana A. Davies, From Sojourners to Citizens: Alberta’s Italian History. Guernica Editions, 2021

Historian Adriana A. Davies’ book From Sojourners to Citizens: Alberta’s Italian History is a unique and comprehensive history that documents the presence of Italians in Alberta in every era of immigration from the 1880s to the present. Most of the Italian-Canadian immigration history to date has been focused on Ontario or Quebec because of the size of the Italian communities in these provinces.

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