Issue Details:First known date:1991...1991Italians in Australia : The Literary Experience : Proceedings of the Conference on the Italians in Australia, the First 200 Years, held at the University of Wollongong and Macquarie University, 27-29 Aug. 1988
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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.
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).
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.
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).
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.
