Antonio D'Alfonso: Essays On His Works

by Licia Canton

Overview

This collection of essays is devoted to the work of Antonio D'Alfonso, a pivotal figure in the bilingual history of Canadian literature. This much anticipated volume gives Antonio D'Alfonso recognition for the enormous contribution he has made to Canadian writing, over nearly fifty years. He has worked as a writer, editor, translator and filmmaker in Quebec and in Ontario. D'Alfonso identifies as a bilingual writer, but he also speaks and writes in Italian. And he has translated works from French and Italian into English, and from English into French. Each contributor to this volume is a witness to D'Alfonso's literary accomplishments. His experiments with genre alone demand critical analysis.The volume Antonio D'Alfonso: Essays on His Works includes a two part introduction by Joseph Pivato and Licia Canton, essays by Lianne Moyes, Domenic Beneventi, Mariam Pirbhai, Lucie Lequin, Nancy Giacomini, Connie Guzzo-McParland, Joseph Pivato, Licia Canton and Simon Harel. The volume closes with two interviews, by Domenic Cusmano and Licia Canton, and a selected bibliography. As the texts in this volume clearly emphasize, Antonio D'Alfonso's writing represents a vital contribution to Canadian and Quebecois literary and artistic production.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771833622
Publisher:	Guernica Editions Inc
Publication date:	04/01/2019
Series:	Essential Writers
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Licia Canton is the author of The Pink House and Other Stories. Her short story collection Almond Wine and Fertility was published in Italy as Vino alla mandorla e fertilità. Her writing has been anthologized internationally. She is also a literary translator and founding editor-in-chief of Accenti Magazine. She has published ten volumes as (co)editor, including two on the internment of Italian Canadians during World War II: Behind Barbed Wire and Beyond Barbed Wire. Other titles include: Antonio D’Alfonso: Essays on His Works, Writing Cultural Difference, Conspicuous Accents, Writing Our Way Home, Reflections on Culture, Writing Beyond History, Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada and The Dynamics of Cultural Exchange. She has served on the board of directors of the Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) and is past-president of the Association of Italian Canadian Writers (AICW). She is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. She is the recipient of the Premio Italia nel Mondo and the Premio Donna Veneta. She lives in Montreal.

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To be a Montreal writer is to be part of a minority, no matter the language or culture that one identifies with. To have been raised Italian in Montreal implies a constant daily shift between spaces, between cultures, between mentalities and codes of behaviour, between the North American and the European, and the constant challenge of reaching an equilibrium. And this environment has certainly informed Antonio D'Alfonso's creative process.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Because of Antonio D'Alfonso

Part I Joseph Pivato 1

Part II Licia Canton 5

Global Baroque: Antonio D'Alfonso's Fabrizio's Passion Lianne Moyes 11

"Feasts Across the Borders": Antonio D'Alfonso's Language Of Difference Domenic Beneventi 29

Pronominal Shifts Through Antonio D'Alfonso's The Other Shore: Toward the Self-Pronouncing "I" Mariam Pirbhai 47

Une homme de trop: A Man Tormented and Loving Lucie Lequin 69

The Ethnic Identity of In Italics Nancy Giacomini 99

Gambling with Failure: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy or Cultural Manifesto? Connie Guzzo-McParland 117

Self-Translation and the Bilingual Mind Joseph Pivato 131

Fabrizlo's Confusion: The Risks and Pleasures of Revised Translation Licia Canton 151

Betrayed Places and Hindered Displacements Simon Harel 163

An Interview with Antonio D'Alfonso Domenic Cusmano 195

In Conversation with Antonio D'Alfonso Licia Canton 199

Selected Bibliography and Awards 203

Selected Bibliography 205

Contributors 213

Acknowledgements 217