1. Italian-Canadian Narratives of Return : Analysing Cultural Translation in Diasporic Writing
- Author
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Michela Baldo and Michela Baldo
- Subjects
- Canadian literature--Italian authors--History and criticism, Return migration in literature, Emigration and immigration in literature, Translating and interpreting, Italians--Canada--Social life and customs, Italian literature--Foreign authors--History and criticism
- Abstract
This book examines the concept of translation as a return to origins and as restitution of lost narratives, and is based on the idea of diaspora as a term that depicts the longing to return home and the imaginary reconstructions and reconstitutions of home by migrants and translators. The author analyses a corpus made up of novels and a memoir by Italian-Canadian writers Mary Melfi, Nino Ricci and Frank Paci, examining the theme of return both within the writing itself and also in the discourse surrounding the translations of these works into Italian. These ‘reconstructions'are analysed through the lens of translation, and more specifically through the notion of written code-switching, understood here as a fictional tool which symbolizes the translational movements between different points of view. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of translation and interpreting, migration studies, and Italian and diasporic writing.
- Published
- 2019