Ricordi Things Remembered

Deals with the theme: the Italian experience in Canada.

Illustrating the importance of family relationships, these short stories follow the life of an immigrant family through the eyes of Marlena. As the protagonist, Marlena struggles to uncover the dynamics of her family's relationships and make sense of it all. Yet in the course of studying her family, Marlena faces the reality of infidelity and other struggles. Through Marlena's eyes and the pleasant prose, the stories demonstrate the eternal strength of family.

Bilingual literary scholar builds bridges spanning institutional silos to found an inclusive "literatures of Canada."

This historic collection, the first of its kind, is devoted to the discussion of Italian-Canadian writers publishing in English, in French or in Italian. These critical essays include analyses of some important writing: F.G. Paci's Black Madonna, the poetry of Mary di Michele and Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, the plays of Marco Micone, Gens du Silence and Addolorata, the novels of Maria Ardizzi and many other titles. The ten contributors make significant additions to the study of Canadian literature: D.C. Minni examines the short story; Alexandre Amprimoz and Sante Viselli consider Italian-Canadian poetry; Roberta Sciff-Zamaro analyses Black Madonna; Robert Billings fathoms di Michels's verse; Frank Paci considers the task of the novelist. Fulvio Caccia's essay on the literary languages of Quebec is controversial as are Filippo Salvatore's arguments on the writer and politics. Antonio D'Alfonso speculates on future developments among the more than one hundred Italian-Canadian writers. In addition to editing the collection, Joseph Pivato introduces the volume with a long essay on ethnic history and literary criticism in Canada, includes another essay on Italian-language writers and concludes with a detailed bibliography and an index.

The more than fifty authors represented come from across Canada and have backgrounds in all regions of Italy.

Cold hands clamped around my neck. From the corner of my eye, something clicked and glinted, like a knife. Sure as hell was not going to find out. The hands became an arm. I sank my teeth into the skin. He let go. I made for the door, did not look back. My chest burned as my legs scaled the wall. The dead taste of blood in my mouth made me gag.

After the fascinating liquid novel, Benedetta in Guysterland, which won the American Book Award in 1994, Giose Rimanelli now presents us a new novel about academic life. Accademia deals with the day-to-day angst in a major American university. Stories of love relationships among nymphets wives and student lovers (hetero/homosexual) unfold amid the struggles for personal power in the realm of higher education. Accademia is the book of one who has experienced life at its deepest levels, the book of a moralist. Giose Rimanelli gained international fame with some of his novels during the 1950s, translated from the Italian in many languages and also made into movies and radio plays. He has lived in both the U.S.A. and Canada and has taught in major universities.