| Stones Into Bread Contributor(s): Teti, Vito (Author), Loriggio, Francesco (Translator), Pietropaolo, Damiano (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1771833386 ISBN-13: 9781771833387 Publisher: Guernica World Editions OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2018 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Travel | Europe - Italy |
| Dewey: 858.914 |
| LCCN: 2018941937 |
| Series: Guernica World Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 250 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Teti, Vito: - Vito Teti is the founder and current director of the Centre for the Study of the Anthropologies and the Literatures of the Mediterranean at the University of Calabria, where he also holds the chair in cultural anthropology. In his research he has devoted particular attention to the eating habits of the peoples of the Mediterranean area, to the anthropology of travel and migration, to rituals and feasts in traditional and contemporary societies, to the representations of the Italian South. He is the author of various collections of essays, of historical novels, of short stories (which have been translated in English, French and Spanish), as well as of photo reportages and ethnographic documentaries. Among his most recent publications are Il patriota e la maestra (2012), Maledetto Sud (2013), Fine pasto. Il cibo che verrą (2015), Terra inquieta. Antropologia dell'erranza meridionale (2015), Quel che resta. L'Italia dei paesi, tra abbandono e ritorno (2017).Loriggio, Francesco: - Francesco Loriggio is Professor Emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa. He has published extensively on both modern Italian literature and Italian Canadian literature. As a translator, he has rendered into English theatre by Achille Campanile (The Inventor of the Horse and Other Short Plays, Guernica Editions) and into Italian poetry and prose by Italian Canadian authors. He has also edited various collections of essays and anthologies, among which Social Pluralism and Literary History. The Literature of the Italian Emigration (Guernica Editions), The Last Effort of Dreams. Essays on the Poetry of Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (WLU Press), and, with Vito Teti, A doppio filo.Un'antologia di scritture calabro-canadesi (Donzell Editore).Pietropaolo, Damiano: - Toronto's Damiano Pietropaolo is an award winning writer/broadcaster, director, translator, and educator. Translations include: selections from Italian Renaissance drama and dramatic theory (Sources of Dramatic Theory, Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, 1991); Ugo Betti's The Queen and the Rebels (Pro Arte Productions, Toronto, 1997); The Fellini Radio Plays, translated and adapted for the stage from radio plays by Federico Fellini (Stratford Festival 2002); a play Love Letters from the Empty Bed, adapted from Ovid's Heroides, (staged at the Glenn Morris Studio Theatre and the Canadian Opera Company's Bradshaw Amphitheatre, 2012); and the novel Between Rothko and Three Windows: Murder at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Quattro books, 2016). Essays, reviews and creative non-fiction have appeared in Saturday Night Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Grail Magazine, CBC Radio, and Il Quotidiano della Calabria. As editor, director and producer Damiano explored the theme of exile and return and the emergence of a post-national drama in such series as Where is Here? The Drama of Immigration (Scirocco Books, 2005), Little Italies (2006, CBC Audio Books, 2007). Essays, poetry and short fiction have been translated into Italian and published in A Filo Doppio, Ed. By Francesco Loriggio and Vito Teti, Donzelli, Rome 2017. |
