Mary Melfi e la ricchezza del ‘paese della miseria’

Auteurs

  • Rosina Martucci Università di Salerno

Mots-clés :

Memoir, Return, Conversation, Food, Identity

Résumé

The Italian-Canadian writer Mary Melfi is the author of a memoir entitled Italy Revisited: Conversations with My Mother. Published in Italy in 2012, this work represents an anthropological fresco of unexpected depth and richness. It presents conversations between a mother who emigrated to Canada, and a daughter who wants to know her own origins and the story of life in a village of Southern Italy. It brings back a disappeared world set in the context of emigrants searching for their own identity. The writer devotes many chapters to the culinary traditions of her home country. Homemade Bread, Pasta and Beans, the Pork Festival, the Olive Harvest, Tomatoes, Ricotta, the Wine Festival, Homemade Pasta, Easter Bread, Chicory and Biscuits are the titles of the chapters devoted to food, its value and the sense of nostalgia that always accompanies a bygone time now lost forever.

Biographie de l'auteur

Rosina Martucci, Università di Salerno

Rosina Martucci graduated in Naples in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (English, French, German) at the Oriental University. She taught English and French Language and Literature in Comprehensive Schools and State High Schools in Italy. She obtained her PhD (2017) in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Salerno , speakers: Prof. Sebastiano Martelli and Martino Marazzi. Her research interests are addressed to the Emigration Literature, Italian and Comparative Literature, Canadian Literature, English Literature, French Literature, Literature and Medieval Art, War Studies Literature, Jewish Literature, Religious Literature, etc. She has published several papers on such topics and texts of English and American civilization and culture and of English-speaking peoples currently in use in Italian schools of first and second degree. She participated in international conferences at universities in Italy, Europe, Canada, U.S.A. and Mexico.

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Publiée

2021-10-11

Numéro

No 13 (2020): Autobiographie / Convivium, Nourriture-Frankenstein, Vampirisme; Autobiography / Banqueting, Frankenstein-Food, Vampirism; Autobiografia / Convivium, Cibo-Frankenstein, Vampirismo

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