Canadian Women Writers of Italian Background
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Abstract
The writing of Italian-Canadian authors indicates a profound awareness of history.This is not the history of textbooks or university courses but real past experiences imprinted on the consciousness of immigrants and their children.Often this family memory extends back to grandparents and recalls the harsh conditions of separated families, of husbands and wives living apart for long periods of time, of family members in different continents.Nowhere is the long term effects of this history more evident than in the writing of women writers of immigrant background.Mary di Michele remembers her grandfather's migration to Canada for work in «A Streetcar Named Nostalgia,» Maria Ardizzi uses early Italian migration as a subtheme in her novels, and Dorina Michelutti depicts a grandmother haunted by this dark memory.Immigration history has been long neglected by traditional Canadian historians and, it seems, we must turn to the writers for views of an almost forgotten past.One of the arguments of this paper is that the immigrant history of the Italian-Canadian writers who are now publishing begins long before they were born.It begins just after Italian unification when men from the economically underdeveloped regions of Calabria, the Abruzzi, Molise, Basilicata and Friuli were forced by the thousands to leave their isolated villages, to cross the Atlantic in order to find work in the New World.These men came without wives or children.They came to work in Canada for two, three or more years in order to make money to establish their families back in their = 35 = Ardizzi, Elena Albani, Mary Melfi, Caterina Edwards and Dorina Michelutti, retrace these life patterns in their works and in the process critically evaluate the condi-
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it