Writing Our Way Home

by Licia Canton, Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni

Overview

Writing Our Way Home is an important contribution to literary studies. “Italian-Canadian writers are not just Canadian writers, but world writers,” states literary critic Elena Lamberti in the introduction to Writing Our Way Home. “They write from Canada with an original point of view on multiple (hybrid) identities and have something to tell the whole world …” A unique volume of creative and critical texts, Writing Our Way Home features contributors from Canada, Italy and the United States: Annalisa Bonomo, John Calabro, Michele Campanini, Licia Canton, Maria Giuseppina Cesari, Pietro Corsi, Domenic Cusmano, Marisa De Franceschi, Mike Dell'Aquila, Alberto Mario DeLogu, Delia De Santis, Gil Fagiani, Nino Famà, Venera Fazio, Frank Giorno, Gabriella Iacobucci, Elena Lamberti, Maria Lisella, Ernesto Livorni, Darlene Madott, Michael Mirolla, Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni, Linda Morra, Oriana Palusci, Gianna Patriarca, Maria Cristina Seccia, Maria Tognan, Osvaldo Zappa, Jim Zucchero.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781550718034
Publisher:	Guernica Editions Inc
Publication date:	05/05/2013
Series:	Essential Anthologies Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	530 KB

About the Author

Licia Canton holds a Ph.D. from Universit de Montral. She is the author of Almond Wine and Fertility, a collection of short stories for women and their men. She is also a literary translator and critic, and editor-in-chief of Accenti Magazine ?www.accenti.ca. She is (co)editor of seven volumes on multiethnic writing, including two books on the internment of Italian Canadians ?Behind Barbed Wire (creative works) and Beyond Barbed Wire (essays). Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni is the author of Looking at Renaissance Paintings and Other Poems (2008). She is the editor of Bravo! (2012), a collection of prose and poetry, and two editions of the anthology Italian Canadian Voices (1984 and 2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 10

Introduction Elena Lamberti 11

Part I Understanding Identity: Theoretical Frameworks

Translating Home Oriana Palusci 21

Migration to Exile: The Paradox of Exodus Ernesto Livorni 36

Ways of Writing Home Jim Zucchero 43

Part II Creative Visitations: Voicing Old and New Homes

Entering Sicily Darlene Madott 57

Pastafasù Nino Famà 64

Two Poems Venera Fazio 69

The Funeral Osvaldo Zappa 71

Building My Bridge Home Maria Lisella 76

Two Poems Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni 81

My Husband Lives in My Garage Linda Morra 84

Growth Mike Dell'Aquila 90

Homecoming Domenic Cusmano 97

Dominique John Calabro 103

Del cacciucco le code Alberto Mario DeLogu 109

II suono delle campane Pietro Corsi 111

La giacca Delia De Santis 118

America Gil Fagiani 121

Concrete Porch, Iron Railings Frank Giorno 123

Poems from Random Thoughts Marisa De Franceschi 124

In the Stacks Licia Canton 129

Billy Michael Mirolla 136

Part III Past, Present and the Hybrid Self: Critical and Creative Considerations

Transcultural Creative Non-Fiction: Caterina Edwards' Finding Rosa and Janice Kulyk Keefer's Honey and Ashes. Finding the Way Home Through Narrative Maria Tognan 145

Reverse Translation Darlene Madott Gianna Patriarca 155

Nino Ricci's Mythopoiesis: Where Has He Gone? Maria Giuseppina Cesari 167

Sweet Lemons 2: Discovery and Memory Delia De Santis Venera Fazio 173

Tra Scozia e Italia: identityà, differenza e poetica interculturale in William Sharp Annalisa Bonomo 179

La Traversata - Italian Immigrant Accounts of Ocean Crossings Michele Campanini 185

Contributors 190