Table of Contents:
  • Introduction:
  • Why comparative essays? ;
  • Ethnic writing and comparative Canadian literature /
  • Joseph Pivato
  • Tasks of the Canadian novelist writing on immigrant themes /
  • F.G. Paci
  • Short story as an ethnic genre /
  • C.D. Minni
  • Black Madonna: a search for the Great Mother /
  • Roberta Sciff-Zamaro
  • Death between two cultures: Italian-Canadian poetry /
  • Alexandre L. Amprimoz
  • Contemporary influences on the poetry of Mary di Michele /
  • Robert Billings
  • Italian writer and language /
  • Fulvio Caccia.
  • Literature of exile: Italian language writing in Canada /
  • Joseph Pivato
  • Italian writers of Quebec: language, culture and politics /
  • Filippo Salvatore
  • Road between: escapism. For an Italian culture in Quebec and Canada /
  • Antonio D'Alfonso.