Michela Baldo
Italian-Canadian Narratives of Return
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- 2020
- Taschenbuch
- 452 Seiten
- ISBN 9781349693252
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
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