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Italian Australian Poetry By First Generation Writers: An Overview, Gaetano Rando
Italian Australian Poetry By First Generation Writers: An Overview, Gaetano Rando
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper focuses on the way in which first generation Italian Australian writers express the experience of the diaspora in their poetry. The paper highlights the more prominent first generation Italian Australian poets — Luigi Strano (who was awarded an honorary MA from the University of Wollongong in 1985), Enoe Di Stefano, Mariano Coreno and Lino Concas. The quantitative and qualitative parameters of their published writings represent not only continuity in terms of the historical and contemporary aspects of the Italian Australian migration experience but also subjective expressions of personal sentiments relating to the meaning of life, love, nature and …
Un Poeta Partenopeo In Australia: Paolo Totaro, Gitano Rando
Un Poeta Partenopeo In Australia: Paolo Totaro, Gitano Rando
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Tra i vari centinaia di Italiani d’Australia che si sono dedicati alla scrittura di testi poetici vi è un gruppo esiguo me non insignificante di scrittori di origine partenopea tra cui risulta, come figura di spiccato rilievo, Paolo Totaro, da annoverare tra i maggiori poeti italoaustraliani. La sua produzione poetica, purtroppo rimasta in gran parte inedita, simultaneamente rispecchia e trascende le sue origini e abbraccia temi di ampia portata quali i traumi infantili della guerra, le scelte intellettuali, l’emigrazione, la tensione fra culture.