Visits Home

Melbourne University Press, Victoria, 2001. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. As soon as I touch down at the airport in Venice & hear the church bells chiming in the distance I start to cry, I'm back home...but then, even as I get down off the plane I'm already missing my other home." Visits Home is… Read more about this item

Melbourne University Press, 2001. Softcover. FINE. Emigration is often perceived as a one-way journey -- leaving one's homeland and arriving in, and adjusting to, a new country. In fact, it can be a much more complex and long-drawn-out process than this. The small village of San Fior lies in northeastern Italy. Between 1900 and 1997, more than 200… Read more about this item

Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 2001. 23.0 x 15.0cms, 396pp, b/w illusts, very good paperback & cover (light sticker scar on spine) The chapters are: licence to leave, obligations to receive: nostalgia & signs of separation; the many Italies; the social construction of Campanilismo; Sistemazione & the process of migration; campanilismo in the host country; the rhetoric of return;… Read more about this item