From different perspectives, the lecture means to focus on the peculiar experience and complications of Italian emigration in Guatemala, mostly at the beginning of the last century, and its literary ...reading. Contemporary writers have often approached the theme of desplacement and uprooting in America, but it's quite unusual to find a voice who tells stories about small communities of emigrants. This is the case of Italians in Guatemala, whose cultural identity has been represented in the latest novel of Dante Liano. By analyzing his work, we try to speculate about the links among history, biography, exile and literary creation
Lo status di emigrato italiano nella Guatemala dei primi del ‘900, presenta in letteratura dei modelli di riferimento concreti, ven visibili oltre che nell’opera di Asturias, nel romanzo Pequeña ...historia de viajes, amores e italianos (2008), di Dante Liano in cui raggiunge sua piena codificazione.Italian Migrants’ Clothes and Habits in Guatemalan Narrative: La pequeña historia de viajes, amores e italianos by Dante LianoThe status of the Italian emigrant in Guatemala at the beginning of the XX century as it is represented in literature presents concrete models, very evident in the Asturias’ production, as well as in Dante Liano’s novel Pequeña historia de viajes, amores e italianos (2008), where such a status acquires a thorough codification.
From different perspectives, the lecture means to focus on the peculiar experience and complications of Italian emigration in Guatemala, mostly at the beginning of the last century, and its literary ...reading. Contemporary writers have often approached the theme of desplacement and uprooting in America, but it's quite unusual to find a voice who tells stories about small communities of emigrants. This is the case of Italians in Guatemala, whose cultural identity has been represented in the latest novel of Dante Liano. By analyzing his work, we try to speculate about the links among history, biography, exile and literary creation
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