The Food of Memory - Mary Melfi’s Conversations with Her Mother
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Résumé
During a conversation in Siena with Mary Melfi, we followed her journey to the land her mother had left behind in search of a New Life across the Ocean.Our springboard was the kitchen table where mother and daughter would sit, retrieving their immigrant story.Listening to Mary Melfi's reading of her 'conversations' with her mother, as recorded in her memoir Italy Revisited, we observed how the 'food' prepared at that table in a Montreal kitchen nourished a complex intricacy of the real and the imagined; we had a sense of the contradictory, entangled feelings with which memory paves the return to the past while promoting the advance to self-discovery.In her mother's kitchen, Mary Melfi was doing what Joe Fiorito did (or was imagined to have done) at his father's deathbed.In the memoir The Closer We Are to Dying, Joe Fiorito recalls how he "asked [his father] for the old stories" because he wanted to know who he was, who his father was, and where his family had come from."These old stories," he claimed, "were the foundation on which the family had been built, they were the very material of which each of us [...] were made" (70).Similarly, in her mother's kitchen, Melfi was looking for her roots and constructing her identity-a common game or quest for the immigrant psyche, troubled as it so often is by the discomfort of hyphenation, of being neither this nor that, and complicated by conflicting feelings of self-indulgence, excruciating angst or ineradicable shame.This discomforting experience of hyphenation is recounted by Fiorito in his perhaps fictional memoir: "My playground pals were English and Irish and Slovack, all Canadian kids; I was one of the gang, but I wasn't [...].I was not like my cousins, and not like the neighbourhood tough, neither was I like the other Canadian kids" (280).A similar malaise is described in the biotext Diamond Grill by Chinese-Canadian Fred Wah, who recollects his school-day interactions with kids of many other racial identities-Italian, Doukhobor, or British: "There's a whole bunch of us who've grown up as resident aliens, living in the hyphen."For many
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