Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/grando Recent documents in Assoc. Prof. G. Rando en-us Sun, 31 May 2009 06:15:44 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/grando/19 http://works.bepress.com/grando/19 Wed, 28 May 2008 13:42:39 PDT This chapter introduces the volume and discusses related theoretical issues. This volume seeks to map an understanding of the Italian experience onto the broader picture of diasporic stories, though with an anchor in the Australian-Italian experience. It brings together key essays and testimonials that frame a picture of Italy's rich legacy at "home", in Europe more widely, and in the (post)colonial sphere, with a particular emphasis on the Australian experience. The essays collected here focus on the way an Italian Australian story has emerged and evolved in its own unique way. In some respects it might be possible to defi ne Australia, through this community, as an Italian space, very much inscribed and described by the many voices that characterise it. What is clear throughout these pages is that past, present and future circulate through and around each other, just as notions of nation - colonial, postcolonial, emigrant and immigrant - jostle for purchase in what is in fact a contested space always under negotiation. G. Turcotte http://works.bepress.com/grando/18 http://works.bepress.com/grando/18 Wed, 28 May 2008 13:42:36 PDT This paper provides a critical introduction to the Italian section of the edited volume La Diaspora italiana dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. The Italian Diaspora after the Second World War, Bivongi [RC], International AM Edizioni, 2007. J. Hagan http://works.bepress.com/grando/17 http://works.bepress.com/grando/17 Wed, 28 May 2008 13:42:33 PDT Il saggio di Gaetano Rando prende lo spunto dal lavoro fondamentale di Pasquino Crupi che maestralmente indica la strada non solo per lo studio della cultura letteraria calabroitaliana ma anche la produzione letteraria e culturale dei Calabresi nel mondo, Australia compresa. In contrapposizione agli studi precedenti sulla letteratura italoaustraliana che hanno trattato il fenomeno nei suoi aspetti globali il saggio di Rando propone un esame capillare dei tratti distintivi e delle esperienze localizzate che segnano la produzione letteraria degli scrittori di origine calabrese. Collegando tale produzione al concetto bakhtiniano del cronotopo che si basa sull'idea che le dimensioni spaziali e temporali sono inseparabili nell'ambito dell'opera letteraria, il saggio intende stabile fino a che punto e in che modo i testi prodotti dai Calabresi d'Australia della prima e delle generazioni successive riportano un'esperienza diasporica caratterizzante calabrese, sia nell'ambito della collettivitą calabroaustraliana sia in relazione ai rapporti con la regione di origine. G. Rando http://works.bepress.com/grando/16 http://works.bepress.com/grando/16 Wed, 28 May 2008 13:42:30 PDT The entry of Italy into the second world war brought considerable disruption to the over thirty thousand strong Italian Australian community whose presence was seen by the Australian authorities as a serious potential threat to national security. About 4,700 mainly male Italian Australians were incarcerated in internment camps while women and children were left to fend for themselves in a highly hostile environment. Although a significant social-historical phenomenon, very few and at best highly partial studies (such as Bosworth and Ugolini 1992, Cresciani 1993, Martinuzzi O'Brien 1993, 2002, in press) have been produced on the subject. Many Italian Australians, however, have tended to reflect, often from a victimological viewpoint, on the internment experience in their memoirs and reminiscences. This paper proposes to provide an additional dimension to the topic by examining oral and written accounts produced by some Italian Australian protagonists of the internment experience with a view to considering how their albeit subjective perceptions provide a particular viewpoint of one way in which Australia reacted to the events of war. G. Rando http://works.bepress.com/grando/15 http://works.bepress.com/grando/15 Wed, 28 May 2008 13:42:26 PDT This paper provides a critical introduction to a special issue of Australian Canadian Studies 23(2) 2005 - "Diasporic Spectrality: Minorities and cultural Assertions in Canada, Australia and Beyond" - guestedited by Gerry Turcotte and Gaetano Rando. The paper discusses the selection of papers that produced a coherent, though not uniform, picture of minority interests that examine the complex ways culture is "asserted" in contemporary times, primarily in the Canadian context, but understood within the larger story of migration, plurality and diaspora. As we worked through the contributions we found not only that they represented a wide variety of fields -- from broadcast policy to Italian migration as expressed in literary texts; from Caribbean-Canadian literature to a wider Caribbean language of exile internationally; to notions of Indigenous diaspora as reflected in the life and work of Canada's Alootook Ipellie -- but also that key threads connected the material in "uncanny" ways. G. Turcotte http://works.bepress.com/grando/14 http://works.bepress.com/grando/14 Wed, 28 May 2008 13:42:24 PDT This chapter is an exhaustive study of literary works, memoirs, theatre and film produced by first and second generation Calabrian Australians. G. Rando http://works.bepress.com/grando/13 http://works.bepress.com/grando/13 Wed, 28 May 2008 13:42:20 PDT L'entrata in guerra dell'Italia rese molto problematica l'esistenza della comunitą italoaustraliana che negli anni '30 annoverava oltre 30000 unitą ed era diventata la pił numerosa collettivitą nonangloceltica del quinto continente. Le autoritą australiane, ritenendo la presenza di tanti non-britannici una grave minaccia potenziale alla sicurezza della nazione, rinchiusero 4727 Italoaustraliani, quasi tutti uomini, in appositi campi di internamento indipendentemente dai titoli di cittadinanza o dalla fede politica. Quale conseguenza le donne e i bambini furono lasciati allo sbaraglio in un ambiente palesemente ostile, fascisti convinti e attivisti antifascisti furono rinchiusi nello stesso campo talvolta con esiti devastanti, i figli degli Italoaustraliani chiamati alle armi si trovarono nella strana situazione di dover visitare i propri padri rinchiusi nei campi. Pur trattandosi di un episodio storico-sociale di notevoloe portata, ben poco spazio vi hanno dedicato gli studiosi (quali Bosworth e Ugolini 1992, Cresciani 1993, Mantinuzzi O'Brian 1993, 2002, in stampa) e manca tuttora una veduta d'insieme del fenomeno. Comunque molti Italoaustraliani che hanno vissuto tali vicende hanno nel corso degli anni articolato le proprie riflessioni, spesso con impostazione vittimologica, nelle memorie e le testimonianze orali della vita in Australia durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Con il presente saggio si intende proporre un aspetto dell'internamento mediato tramite l'esame delle testimonianze orali e scritte degli Italoaustraliani che ne furono protagonisti. Queste testimonianze verranno collocate nell'ambito dei pochi studi disponibili sull'argomento. G. Rando http://works.bepress.com/grando/12 http://works.bepress.com/grando/12 Wed, 28 May 2008 13:42:18 PDT Provides a conclusion to the Italian section of the edited book. J. Hagan http://works.bepress.com/grando/11 http://works.bepress.com/grando/11 Wed, 28 May 2008 13:42:15 PDT Provides a conclusion to the English section of the edited book. J. Hagan http://works.bepress.com/grando/10 http://works.bepress.com/grando/10 Wed, 28 May 2008 13:42:13 PDT Giorgio Mangiamele, born in Catania in 1926, migrated to Melbourne in 1952 and constitutes a rare example of CALD involvement in the early development of Australian cinema in the post-war period. His feature film Clay (1965) was the first Australian film to be invited to enter the competition at the Cannes Film Festival. However, despite his significant contribution to the emerging Australian cinematic culture, particularly to the development of 'art' cinema, he has received relatively little recognition. Over a thirty year period Mangiamele made fourteen films as director or director/producer. His first productions--The Contract (1953), Unwanted (ca 1957), The Brothers (1958), The Spag (1961) and Ninety-Nine Per cent (1963)--present themes related to the Italian migration experience in Australia in the 1950s depicted in all its immediacy and contemporaneity as an integral feature of the existentialist condition of our times. The only Australian director consistently to deal with such themes at the time, Mangiamele focuses on the dislocation, the alienation, the loneliness and the recall of the home country that constitutes the experience of his emblematic characters struggling to make sense of a society that is in many ways unaccepting. This paper proposes to apply the concepts of liminality and temporality elabourated by Hamid Nacify (2001) to the analysis of the themes related to the Italian Australian diaspora in the films of Giorgio Mangiamele. G. Rando