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Recent Perceptions Of Rural Australia In Italian And Italian Australian Narrative, Gaetano Rando
Recent Perceptions Of Rural Australia In Italian And Italian Australian Narrative, Gaetano Rando
Gaetano Rando
The publication in 2008 of the English translation of Emilio Gabbrielli’s novel Polenta e Goanna based on Italian migrants in the West Australian goldfields brings into focus the themes of the bush, the outback and migration that since the mid 1850s (Raffaello Carboni, Rudesindo Salvado) have emerged as a constant thread in texts produced by Italian Australian writers. Italian settlement in rural and outback areas of Australia during the late 1800s and early 1900s has remained a largely unsung saga while most Italians migrating to Australia after 1947 ultimately settled in urban areas. Among the few who have written creatively …
Images Of Sicily And Australia In The Narratives Of Venero Armanno And Antonio Casella, Gaetano Rando
Images Of Sicily And Australia In The Narratives Of Venero Armanno And Antonio Casella, Gaetano Rando
Gaetano Rando
ITALIAN AUSTRALIAN "MIGRATION" LITERATURE HAS DISPLAYED a tendency to present themes and characters closely linked to southem Italy, in particular Sicily and Calabria, a phenomenon in part explained by the massive emigration from these regions between the late I800s and the early 1970s. Sicilian Australians constitute the largest Italian regional group present in the country, with some 50,000 Sicilian born, while, according to community estimates, as many as 200,000 Australian born may have some claim to Sicilian ancestry.