Table of Contents

Introduction: The Immigrant: Actor or Outcast; Cabato and other Parentela: The Uses of the Italian-Canadian Past; Italian Emigration: Reconsidering the Links in Chain Migration; Canada as a Target for Trade and Emigration in Post-Unification Italian Writing; Workers without a Cause: Italian Immigrant Labour in Montreal, 1880-1930; Beyond the Frozen Wastes: Italian Sojourners and Settlers in British Columbia; Indian Art and Artists in 19th Century Quebec: A Few Preliminary Observations; The Italians of Quebec: Key Participants in Contemporary Linguistic and Political Debates; Contemporary Italo-Canadian Literature; Italo-Canadian Poetry and Ethnic Semiosis in the Post-modern Context; Name Index.

About the Author

Roberto Perin teaches in the History Department at Glendon Campus, York University. Among his publications:Enemies Within: Italian and Other Internees in Canada and Abroad (1999); A Concise History of Christianity in Canada (1996); Rome et le Canada: la bureaucratie vaticane et la question nationale 1870-1903; Negotiating With a Sovereign Quebec;(1992); Rome in Canada: The Vatican and Canadian Affairs in the Late Victorian Age (1990).

Franc Sturino teaches at Atkinson College, York University. He is an expert on the Italian immigrant community in Canada. He has written two books on Italian immigration to North America.

Reviews

Fascinating essays all ... Arrangiarsi should be viewed as a pioneer effort and a reflection of where Canada is in Italo-Canadian studies today.--Choice