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The Anthology of Italian-Canadian Writing, Vol. 52 »
Authors: Joseph Pivato (Editor), Jose Pivato
ISBN-13: 9781550710694, ISBN-10: 1550710699
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Guernica Editions, Incorporated
Date Published: January 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Joseph Pivato
Book Synopsis
This is truly the anthology of Italian-Canadian writing. It is the most inclusive collection of its kind in North America. A wide variety of genres are presented: short stories, poems, sketches, essays, plays, film scripts, novels, prose poems, life-writing, political articles, and memoirs. The authors - over fifty in all - come from across Canada and represent all ages and regions of Italy, and write in English, French, Italian, or dialect. This anthology is made for enjoyable general reading and is an excellent text for high schools, colleges, and universities.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 9 | |
| Editor's Note | 18 | |
| Sect. 1 | Writers from Our Past | |
| Breve Relatione | 21 | |
| Winter Night | 27 | |
| The City Without Women | 28 | |
| Ricordo Bene Quella Sera | 31 | |
| Scrivere | 34 | |
| Italian Language Writers: A Commentary | 35 | |
| Sect. 2 | Writers for Our Time | |
| (Back)Water | 43 | |
| Details From the Canadian Mosaic | 54 | |
| Stealing Persimmons | 61 | |
| The Gift | 77 | |
| A Mimosa in Winter | 86 | |
| A Man Called Beppino | 94 | |
| Surface Tension | 100 | |
| Among the Hills and Beyond the Sea | 105 | |
| Mythologies | 111 | |
| Echoes in the Garden | 113 | |
| Italy: Spring 1920 | 115 | |
| Writer and Lawyer | 120 | |
| Il Carretto | 123 | |
| To My Friend, Nino | 124 | |
| The Scissors | 125 | |
| Haiku | 140 | |
| Coming to Terms with the Mother Tongue | 143 | |
| Giulio Visits a Friend | 156 | |
| A Laura Secord Box | 163 | |
| Poems for Giovanni Caboto | 166 | |
| Francesca's Way | 171 | |
| His Last Visit and Two Poems | 179 | |
| The Ache Within | 182 | |
| My Old Man | 191 | |
| Babel | 195 | |
| Letter and Reconsidering the Southern Question | 200 | |
| Fountain | 215 | |
| Sect. 3 | Ironies of Identity | |
| The Life and Fortune of Nicola Masso | 247 | |
| Sarrasine | 254 | |
| Growing Up with the Movies | 260 | |
| 1989 | 271 | |
| Mamma | 281 | |
| Montpel(l)ier | 283 | |
| Benvenuta, primavera | 285 | |
| Rome Afterwar | 286 | |
| Passeggiata Di Sogno | 288 | |
| Reminiscences and Fairy Tale | 299 | |
| My Grandfather Didn't | 307 | |
| Stained Glass | 309 | |
| The Old Man End of Things | 313 | |
| A Crypto-Ethnic Confession | 314 | |
| Voiceless People and Addolorata | 324 | |
| November Crossing | 334 | |
| Sammy's in Love | 343 | |
| Wanting a Baby | 351 | |
| Writing the Minority Subject | 360 | |
| Biographies | 367 | |
| Selected Bibliography for Italian-Canadian Writing | 381 | |
| Acknowledgements | 385 |
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