y separately published work icon Italians 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 anthology   essay   criticism   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Italians 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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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, Gaetano Rando , single work essay (p. i-vi)
Letteratura Italo-Australiana, Valerio Borghese , single work criticism (p. 1-4)
Early Italo-Australian Literature as a Sociological Document, Charles D'Aprano , single work criticism
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).
 (p. 5-6)
Italo-Australian Writing 1988, Hilarie Lindsay , single work criticism
Lindsay provides brief critical commentary on the stories collected in Italo-Australian Prose in the 80s.
 (p. 7-12)
Gino Nibbi : Lettere Dall'Australia tra Mito e Autobiografia, Alfredo Luzi , Michael Arrighi (translator), single work criticism
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.
 (p. 13-31)
Images of Australia, Tony Pagliaro , single work essay criticism (p. 32-35)
Renato Amato : An Italian Immigrant Writer in New Zealand, Gaetano Rando , single work criticism (p. 36-47)
The New Italy : Episode in Contemporary Italian Literature, Gaetano Rando , single work criticism
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).
 (p. 48-60)
Carlo Sgorlon : Heimat, Emigrazione e Ritorno, Sofferenza e Compassione, Franco Vicenzotti , single work criticism (p. 61-71)
The Bouncer and the Seagull, Joe Abiuso , single work short story (p. 72-74)
Una Questione di Grammatica, Renato Amato , Gaetano Rando (translator), single work short story (p. 75-84)
Zucchero, Giovanni Andreoni , extract novel (p. 85-90)
But I'm from Planet Earth, Michael Arrighi , single work autobiography
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.
 (p. 91-98)
Il Bombilio di Cleopatra, Fernando Basili , single work short story (p. 99-109)
Achille L'Orologio, Valerio Borghese , single work short story (p. 110-116)
Full Moon in Kookaburra, Carlo Canteri , single work short story (p. 117-120)
And Brightly Burns the Torch of Freedom, Carlo Canteri , single work short story (p. 121-128)
Without a Trout, Carlo Canteri , single work short story (p. 129-131)
What You Are You Do Not See - What You See Is Your Shadow, Carlo Canteri , single work short story (p. 132)
Quasi un Accidente, Gennaro Cozzi , single work short story (p. 133-136)
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