The essay, dealing with literary texts and with the relationship between memory and identity, confirms once again the fact that Italy is an intercultural or intertextual presence in Canadian literature and culture J. Urquhart’s “Hotel Verbano” and D. Keating’s "Eolian Arp"are focused on Italy but their style betrays, to say it slightly misquoting Harold Bloom, a “postcolonial anxiety of tradition. It is interesting to note the progressive emergence of an innovative approach towards Italy. There is a large group of contemporary Canadian writers who see in Italy a geographic, cultural and historical given and treat it simply as one of the possible potential subject matters for their poetry and fiction (as happens for instance in Anne Michaels or Michael Ondaatje).
Memory and Dream: Jane Urquhart's and Diane Keating's Remembrances of Italy
RIZZARDI, BIANCAMARIA
2010-01-01
Abstract
The essay, dealing with literary texts and with the relationship between memory and identity, confirms once again the fact that Italy is an intercultural or intertextual presence in Canadian literature and culture J. Urquhart’s “Hotel Verbano” and D. Keating’s "Eolian Arp"are focused on Italy but their style betrays, to say it slightly misquoting Harold Bloom, a “postcolonial anxiety of tradition. It is interesting to note the progressive emergence of an innovative approach towards Italy. There is a large group of contemporary Canadian writers who see in Italy a geographic, cultural and historical given and treat it simply as one of the possible potential subject matters for their poetry and fiction (as happens for instance in Anne Michaels or Michael Ondaatje).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
