Finding Rosa

Finding Rosa PDF Author: Caterina Edwards
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1553655265
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Book Description
When her mother, Rosa, begins to show signs of dementia, Caterina Edwards embarks on what turns out to be a search for the meaning of the past and of home. During the four years she cares for her mother, Edwards must navigate between conflicting responsibilities while dealing with her mother's troubled mind and her own exhaustion. This frank memoir tells a complex story of two women in crisis, one struggling to maintain a sense of self, the other seeking to understand and accept both her past and her present.

Finding Rosa

Finding Rosa PDF Author: Caterina Edwards
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1553655265
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Book Description
When her mother, Rosa, begins to show signs of dementia, Caterina Edwards embarks on what turns out to be a search for the meaning of the past and of home. During the four years she cares for her mother, Edwards must navigate between conflicting responsibilities while dealing with her mother's troubled mind and her own exhaustion. This frank memoir tells a complex story of two women in crisis, one struggling to maintain a sense of self, the other seeking to understand and accept both her past and her present.

The Sicilian Wife

The Sicilian Wife PDF Author: Caterina Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927535622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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Book Description
Both a literary novel and a mystery, The Siciian Wife is about two strong women. Fulvia, the Mafia Princess, must be a dutiful daughter or the family will be dishonoured. And Marisa is the police chief in Sicily investigating the death of Fulvia's husband.

The Lion's Mouth

The Lion's Mouth PDF Author: Caterina Edwards
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9780920717677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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In this eloquent novel, an Italian/Canadian woman named Bianca tells the story of her beloved cousin, Marco, whose life is disintegrating along with his city--Venice, Italy. As she tries to make sense of her cousin's breakdown, Bianca recounts her own history and reflects on her immigrant and Canadian experiences, coming to terms with her dual cultures. The novel is multifaceted as a thriller, study of social mores in Italy and Canada, portrait of Venice, and self-reflexive account.

Forgotten Italians

Forgotten Italians PDF Author: Konrad Eisenbichler
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 148751929X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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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.

Island of the Nightingales

Island of the Nightingales PDF Author: Caterina Edwards
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9781550710229
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Book Description
Edwards takes her images from the spheres of art and science highlighting unexpected connections and, with her graceful, spare style, brings clarity, understanding and humour to basic questions of responsibility, desire and loss."--BOOK JACKET.

Dressed for War

Dressed for War PDF Author: Nina Edwards
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 085773511X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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Book Description
Men in khaki and grey squatting in the trenches, women at work, gender bending in goggles and overalls over their trousers, a girl at the Paris theatre in pleated, beaded silk, a bangle on her forearm made from copper fuse wire from the Somme. What people wear matters. Copiously illustrated, this book is the story of what people on both sides wore on the front line and on the home front through the seismic years of World War I. Nina Edwards, reveals fresh aspects of the war through the prism of the smallest details of personal dress, of clothes, hair and accessories, both in uniform and civilian wear. She explores how, during a period of extraordinary upheaval and rapid change, a particular preference for a type of razor blade or perfume, say, or the just-so adjustment to the tilt of a hat, offer insights into the individual experience of men, women and children during the course of World War I.

Writers in Transition

Writers in Transition PDF Author: C. Dino Minni
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9780920717264
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Book Description
In November 1985, several writers, including Joseph Pivato, Antonio D'Alfonso, Pasquale Verdicchio and Dino Minni thought a national conference to take stock and discuss future directions might be a good idea. The Italian Cultural Centre graciously offered its premises. This collection of the proceedings contains the scholarly papers delivered.

The Power of Allegiances

The Power of Allegiances PDF Author: Marino Tuzi
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9781550710298
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Book Description
The Power of Allegiances explores contemporary social reality in Canada from a cultural perspective. It proposes that ideas about being Canadian are not culturally neutral. Such ideas are influenced by specific, historical, and cultural traditions that differ from those found in anglophone and francophone communities. By examining the fictional work of several writers of Italian heritage, Marino Tuzi demonstrates that one's cultural and gender identity is a product of conflicting factors, factors which are located in mainstream society and in a given ethnic group. The book shows that this particular representation of Canadian experience by minority writers is conveyed in ways which underline a unique cultural perspective. Marino Tuzi makes use of cultural studies, social history, and the sociology of ethnicity, and literary criticism. This interdisciplinary study of culture and society will be of interest to a variety of readers, from specialists in the fields of cultural studies, literature, and sociology to general readers who are curious about the multicultural nature of contemporary Canadian life.

Homeground

Homeground PDF Author: Caterina Edwards
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9780920717028
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 93

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Book Description
Conceived as a quasi-opera, evocative of the passionate intensity of Italian operatic characters, this is not so much an 'Italian play' as a play of prisons and prisoners, frustrated human needs and passions, and dreams of home (4 men, 2 women, 1 boy).

My Mr. Beautiful

My Mr. Beautiful PDF Author: Caterina Passarelli
Publisher: Eternal City Love
ISBN: 9780692543153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Book Description
When Elena Scott needs to get away from her busy, successful marketing career -- and a boyfriend she catches cheating on her in their bed -- she flees Michigan for an open-ended trip to Rome, Italy.No plans, no return ticket and no expectations.Elena quickly becomes a barista in Stella's Caffe. The job proves serendipitous, when she meets Mr. Beautiful, Leonardo Forte. He's tall, dark, handsome and a billionaire. He's also a serial supermodel dater -- who becomes smitten with Elena.His commanding personality leads Elena on the ride of her life through sparkling nightclubs and marbled mansions as her complicated love for the Italian builds. He only wants 'friends with benefits' and she wants much more. 'My Mr. Beautiful is a modern erotic story of steamy passion and difficult love -- will Elena find eternal love in the Eternal City?**FOR MATURE READERS ONLY --- this book is erotica and will contain very detailed sexual scenes. If you can't hang with that, this is NOT the book for you.**"My Mr. Beautiful" is book 1 in the 2 book "Eternal City Love" series.