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And My Immigrant Ship Sails On: Returning on Deck with Ricci’s Lives of the Saints Trilogy
22 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Gabriel Niccoli
This article addresses the theme of nostos and of immigrant journeying by locating the author and his memories on the very liner Saturnia that brought, in an eerily fanciful quirk of fate, Ricci’s...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/4658/?v=1
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Italian Heritage and the Experience of Migration and Nostos in Canadian Poetry
22 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Francesca Cadel
The article addresses the theme of nostos by referring to the journeys of three authors of Italian heritage: Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Mary di Michele, and Gianna Patriarca. Their poetry allows the...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/4663/?v=1
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Narratives of Nostos by Italian-Canadian Women
22 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Licia Canton
We are privileged to read and write and share narratives of nostos that are inspired by our (grand)parents’ decision to emigrate. The return journey “home” shows a need to look to the past, towards...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/4662/?v=1
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Nonna's Spiritual Journey Back Home
22 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Raymond Culos
This is a story of a young bride, typical of many Italian women of her generation, who struggled with the proposition of having to leave all she knew and loved behind to join her husband and a new...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/4654/?v=1
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Nostos and Nineteenth-Century Italian-Canadian Immigration: Mapping the Earliest Latin Quarters
22 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Roberta Cauchi-Santoro
In this article, I examine the formation of the first Latin Quarter in London (ON) at the end of the nineteenth century, and thus at the dawn of modernity. I analyse how these first (mostly...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/4652/?v=1
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Nostos, Nostalgia and Italian Migration
22 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Franc Sturino
The Italian immigrant experience in North America is discussed in relation to the concepts of nostos and nostalgia. The first term, normally referring to the return home from a sea voyage, is...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/4651/?v=1
