Italian Heritage and the Experience of Migration and Nostos in Canadian Poetry

Abstract

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 possibility to revisit their journeys and to consider migration as a source of knowledge, and positive change, despite the many challenges involved in the mutation process, and the difficult hermeneutic of losses, necessary to reach awareness and a new sense of belonging.

Keywords:

• nostos,
• journeys,
• migration,
• poetry,
• translation,
• Pier Giorgio Di Cicco,
• Mary di Michele,
• Gianna Patriarca,
• multiculturalism,
• ltalo-­Canadian poets,
• post-racial society