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What do you call this?

Starnino, Carmine (2000) What do you call this? Masters thesis, Concordia University.

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Many of the poems in this collection deal with issues of immigration, exile and cultural loss. The emphasis, however, is not placed on ethnicity in any strict sense, but rather on taking the, by now, familiar premise of the immigrant subject and giving it back to the reader, as the Irish poet Seamus Heaney writes, "with a clean new music in it". The Italian-Canadian identity of the poems--or its Italianita --is enacted either through autobiographical narrative or by mediating on certain relevant cultural and societal artifacts. The collection ends with a long poem devoted to reclaiming and celebrating old, forgotten English words.

Divisions:Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > English
Item Type:Thesis (Masters)
Authors:Starnino, Carmine
Pagination:iii, 52 leaves ; 29 cm.
Institution:Concordia University
Degree Name:M.A.
Program:English
Date:2000
Thesis Supervisor(s):Allen, Robert
Identification Number:PS 8587 T3535W43 2000
ID Code:1387
Deposited By: Concordia University Library
Deposited On:27 Aug 2009 17:18
Last Modified:13 Jul 2020 19:49
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