RIS ID
26922
Abstract
ITALIAN AUSTRALIAN "MIGRATION" LITERATURE HAS DISPLAYED a tendency to present themes and characters closely linked to southem Italy, in particular Sicily and Calabria, a phenomenon in part explained by the massive emigration from these regions between the late I800s and the early 1970s. Sicilian Australians constitute the largest Italian regional group present in the country, with some 50,000 Sicilian born, while, according to community estimates, as many as 200,000 Australian born may have some claim to Sicilian ancestry.
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Publication Details
Rando, G. (2008). Images of Sicily and Australia in the Narratives of Venero Armanno and Antonio Casella. Antipodes: a North American journal of Australian literature, 22 (2), 155-161.