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This volume is part of a three volume set constituting the Proceedings of the Bicentennial Conference on Italians in Australia: The First 200 Years.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Wollongong,
Wollongong area,
Illawarra,
South Coast,
New South Wales,:University of Wollongong, Department of Modern Languages
, 1991 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Italo-Australian Prose, single work essay (p. i-vi)
- Letteratura Italo-Australiana, single work criticism (p. 1-4)
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Early Italo-Australian Literature as a Sociological Document,
single work
criticism
(p. 5-6)In this brief paper, D'Aprano suggests that early Italo-Australian writing should be considered as 'primary sources' for sociological research, as these writers 'speak of their lives and their experiences in their social context' (6).
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Italo-Australian Writing 1988,
single work
criticism
(p. 7-12)Lindsay provides brief critical commentary on the stories collected in Italo-Australian Prose in the 80s.
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Gino Nibbi : Lettere Dall'Australia tra Mito e Autobiografia,
Michael Arrighi
(translator),
single work
criticism
(p. 13-31)Luzi reads and comments upon a collection of letters written by Nibbi, beginning with his journey by ship to Australia in 1926 and continuing with his experiences in Australia through to 1930.
- Images of Australia, single work essay criticism (p. 32-35)
- Renato Amato : An Italian Immigrant Writer in New Zealand, single work criticism (p. 36-47)
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The New Italy : Episode in Contemporary Italian Literature,
single work
criticism
(p. 48-60)Gaetano Rando provides comment on Nievo's Le Isole del Paradiso, a novel which, in its first part, narrates the 'ill-fated atttempt to found the colony of Nouvelle France at Port Breton in New Ireland.' Rando draws our attention to the fact that Australia represents a significant thematic element in the novel, as the Italian emigrants from the failed colony settle eventually in New Italy in northern NSW (49).
- Carlo Sgorlon : Heimat, Emigrazione e Ritorno, Sofferenza e Compassione, single work criticism (p. 61-71)
- The Bouncer and the Seagull, single work short story (p. 72-74)
- Una Questione di Grammatica, Gaetano Rando (translator), single work short story (p. 75-84)
- Zucchero, extract novel (p. 85-90)
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But I'm from Planet Earth,
single work
autobiography
(p. 91-98)Arrighi writes of his childhood in Scotland, his visit to Italy in 1935 at age five, his family's experiences during WWII, and his eventual decision to emigrate to Australia.
- Il Bombilio di Cleopatra, single work short story (p. 99-109)
- Achille L'Orologio, single work short story (p. 110-116)
- Full Moon in Kookaburra, single work short story (p. 117-120)
- And Brightly Burns the Torch of Freedom, single work short story (p. 121-128)
- Without a Trout, single work short story (p. 129-131)
- What You Are You Do Not See - What You See Is Your Shadow, single work short story (p. 132)
- Quasi un Accidente, single work short story (p. 133-136)
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