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Love in the Time of Migration : Lovers’ Correspondence between Italy and Canada, 1948-1957
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Love in the Time of Migration : Lovers’ Correspondence between Italy and Canada, 1948-1957
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| Abstract |
How did a lover’s letter help to negotiate physical absence, separation, and migration? How can words of romantic love and yearning contribute to historians’ understanding of amour-passion, letter-writing, and transnational relationships? And what do they tell us about ordinary lives and migration experiences? The author argues that love letters written by everyday writers in a context of international migration are extraordinary historical documents. She points out that these cultural artefacts offer a plethora of insights on transnational communication, the romantic love that infused such epistolary narratives, the challenges that ordinary lovers faced in their separation, and how letter-writing helped them to negotiate a lover’s absence. To illustrate her point, the author examines letters written by women and men in the context of Italian postwar migration to Canada, mostly to Montreal.
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Diversité urbaine
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Vol. 10
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no. 2
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91-109
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Printemps 2011
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en
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Cancian, Sonia. “Love in the Time of Migration : Lovers’ Correspondence between Italy and Canada, 1948-1957.” Diversité urbaine Vol. 10, no. 2 (Printemps 2011): 91–109. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/du/2011-v10-n2-du1824352/1006427ar.pdf.
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