Scholarship on Italian emigration has generally omitted the Julian-Dalmatians, a group of Italians from Istria and Dalmatia, two regions that, in the wake of World War Two, were ceded by Italy to Yugoslavia as part of its war reparations to that country. Though Italians by language culture, and traditions, it seems that this group has been conveniently excised from history. And yet, Julian-Dalmatians constitute an important element in twentieth-century Italian history and represent a unique aspect of both Italian culture and emigration. This ground-breaking collection of articles from an international team of scholars opens the discussion on these “forgotten Italians” by briefly reviewing the history of their diaspora and then by examining the literary and artistic works they produced as immigrants to Canada. Forgotten Italians offers new insights into such celebrated authors as Diego Bastianutti, Mario Duliani, Caterina Edwards, and Gianni Angelo Grohovaz, as well as visual artists such as Vittorio Fiorucci and Silvia Pecota. Profoundly marked by the experience of being uprooted and forced into exile, by life in refugee camps, and by the encounter with a new culture, first-generation Julian-Dalmatians in Canada used art and writing to come to terms with their anguished situation and to rediscover their cultural roots.
| ISBN: | 9781487504021 |
| Publication date: | 16th January 2019 |
| Author: | Konrad Eisenbichler |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Series: | Toronto Italian Studies |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: postcolonial literature Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary companions, book reviews and guides Fiction companions |