The Transcultural Rewriting of the Italian Ethnoscape
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Italian-Canadian, women's, writingAbstract
This paper explores the transcultural elements in contemporary Italian-Canadian women’s writing and analyzes how these writers incorporate local elements from their heritage cultures, from the host Canadian culture and from the mixing of these cultures within the Italian-Canadian context, in order to transcend boundaries, bridge cultures and languages, and open their writing up to broader, more globalized issues.
La riscrittura transculturale dell’Ethnoscape italiano
Questo articolo esplora gli elementi transculturali nella scrittura contemporanea delle donne italo-canadesi e analizza come queste scrittrici incorporino elementi locali dalle loro culture storiche, dalla cultura canadese ospitante e dalla mescolanza di queste culture all'interno del contesto italo-canadese, al fine di trascendere i confini, collegano culture e lingue e aprono i loro scritti a questioni più ampie e globalizzate.
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