Columbus Centre: A Piazza of Italian Canadian Identity
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Abstract
The anthropologist Clifford Geertz wrote, "at base thinking is a public activity -its natural habitat is the houseyard, the market place and the town square".A metaphor used by many to describe Columbus Centre is that it is the community's piazza: a forum in which ideas are exchanged and debated, friends meet, business is conducted, families gather and culture is expressed and produced, "a bridge to ourselves and to the greater community.This piazza has helped to shed negative stereotypes and foster instead the vibrant values of commitment and multiculturalism..." But this is not a piazza in the sense that any of these immigrants have encountered before; this is not the typical piazza of their hometown nor even a piazza of their regional capital.This is what I would like to call una piazza dell'immaginazione.With this term I wish to suggest that before there was a physical construction of the Columbus Centre as the community's piazza there was a collectively imagined, social construction of this piazza.The idea of a piazza, or town square, was part of a collective imagination first and then second it was created.But it is also a piazza that once constructed from the imagination it continues to be the site of creativity and imagination and in this sense it may also be termed una piazza della creativita.This is a piazza of an Italian collectivity searching for a meeting place of identities in an immigrant metropolis.This paper will look at some of the history of Columbus Centre to examine the invention of Columbus Centre and the continued public activity of thinking in the town square.
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