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Gaetano Rando Gaetano Rando i(A18971 works by) (a.k.a. Gaetano Luigi Rando; Gaetano Rondo)
Born: Established: 1942 Rome,
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Italy,
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1949
Heritage: Italian
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1 y separately published work icon Christmas in the Aeolian Islands = Natale Nelle Eolie : A Story with Music = Un Racconto Con Musica Diana Santamaria , Gaetano Rando (translator), Vaucluse : Diana Santamaria , 2015 9027585 2015 selected work short story children's
1 Negotiating the Liminal Divide : Some Italian-Australian Diasporic Poets Gaetano Rando , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , September no. 43.0 2013;
1 Sicilian Australian Creative Writing and the Cultural Contestation of the Migration Experience Gaetano Rando , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: La Questione Meridionale / The Southern Question , February no. 1 2010;
1 y separately published work icon La Questione Meridionale / The Southern Question Lidia Bilbatua (editor), Henri Jeanjean (editor), Antonio Jose Simoes Da Silva (editor), Gaetano Rando (editor), 2010 Cosenza : Luigi Pellegrini Editore , 2010- Z1874994 2010 periodical (1 issues) La Questione Meridionale / The Southern Question is an international multidisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal that explores on a global basis relevant historical, social, linguistic, cultural and literary issues related to the field.
2 Cultural Equilibriums and Linguistic Dislocations : The Poetry of Paolo Totaro Gaetano Rando , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Made : A Multicultural Reader 2010; (p. 278-295)
— Appears in: Collected Poems (1950-2011) 2012; (p. xiii-xix)
2 1 Volanta' di parlare i "sinceremente", Paolo Totaro , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Italo-Australian Poetry in the 80s II : A Selection of Poems from the Italo-Australian Writers Association 1989; (p. 129)
— Appears in: Australian Made : A Multicultural Reader 2010; (p. 290-292)
1 Untitled Gaetano Rando , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: La Questione Meridionale / The Southern Question , February no. 1 2010; (p. 153-155)
— Review of Carmelo Caruso : i due cuori di un emigrante Irene Sampognaro , 2008 single work biography
1 Recent Italian-Australian Narrative Fiction by First Generation Writers Gaetano Rando , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 31 no. 1 2009; (p. 100-115) The publication in 2008 of the English version of Emilio Gabbrielli's (2000) novel Polenta e Goanna and the new re-introduced edition of Rosa Cappiello's Oh Lucky Country in 2009 constitutes something of a landmark in Italian-Australian writing. Cappiello's novel is now the second most-published work by a first generation Italian-Australian writer after Raffaello Carboni's (1855) Eureka Stockade. Although Italians in Australia have been writing about their experiences since the mid 1800s and have produced texts such as those by Salvado (1851), Ercole (1932) and Nibbi (1937),a coherent corpus of Italian-Australian writing has developed only after the post-World War Two migration boom which saw some 360,000 Italian-born migrants entering Australia between 1947 and 1972. While the majority have contributed in some way to Australia's economic development (see Castles et al 1992) only a few hundred have written about their experiences, producing memoirs, (auto)biographies, poetry, theatre and narrative fiction. Although this writing has made relatively little impact on mainstream Australian literary culture and has attracted relatively little attention it deals with political, social and cultural issues and an alternative perspective of Australia from the periphery that makes it worthy of critical attention. [Author's abstract]
1 The Cappiello Legacy Gaetano Rando , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Heat , no. 20 (New Series) 2009; (p. 209-219)
1 Italian Australian Literature : A CALD Perspective of Migration and Life Down Under Gaetano Rando , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 250-262) And overview of writings by Italian-Australian authors since the 1850s.
1 Recent Perceptions of Rural Australia in Italian and Italian Australian Narrative Gaetano Rando , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: FULGOR , November vol. 3 no. 3 2008; The publication in 2008 of the English translation of Emilio Gabbrielli's novel Polenta e Goanna based on Italian migrants in the West Australian goldfields brings into focus the themes of the bush, the outback and migration that since the mid 1850s (Raffaello Carboni, Rudesindo Salvado) have emerged as a constant thread in texts produced by Italian Australian writers. Italian settlement in rural and outback areas of Australia during the late 1800s and early 1900s has remained a largely unsung saga while most Italians migrating to Australia after 1947 ultimately settled in urban areas. Among the few who have written creatively about their experiences even fewer have engaged in themes related to the bush and the outback. Only four narrative writers - Giovanni Andreoni, Giuseppe Abiuso, Ennio Monese and Franko Leoni - have written about non-urban Australia in substantially social realist terms. More recently, this trend had taken a post-modern perspective in a few Italian Australian (Emilio Gabbrielli, Antonio Casella) and Italian writers (Stanislao Nievo, Dario Donati, Paolo Catalano) who depict the Australian outback as providing a solution to the protagonists' life quest and promote a discourse on nature as a dynamic, positive and vital element that contrasts with man's static negativism. This paper proposes to explore this latest trend and the resulting temporal and spatial dislocations that arise from the mapping of two overlapping cultural and geographical contexts. [Author's abstract]
1 Images of Sicily and Australia in the Narratives of Venero Armanno and Antonio Casella Gaetano Rando , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 22 no. 2 2008; (p. 155-161) The article explores themes related to Sicily and Australia in the narratives of Armanno and Casella.
1 Liminality, Temporality and Marginalization in Giorgio Mangiamele's Migrant Movies Gaetano Rando , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 1 no. 2 2007; (p. 209-221) This article approaches Giorgio Mangiamele's work is a rare example of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse [CALD] involvement in the early development of Australian cinema in the post-war period. His feature film Clay (1965) was the first Australian film to be invited to enter the competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

It outlines his significant yet largely ignored contribution to the emerging Australian cinematic culture, particularly to the development of 'art' cinema. Over a thirty-year period Mangiamele made fourteen films as director or director/producer that present themes related to the Italian migration experience in Australia in the 1950s.

Rando suggests that Mangiamele's focus on dislocation, alienation, loneliness, and nostalgia for the home country constitutes the experience of his emblematic characters struggling to make sense of a society that is in many ways unaccepting. This article proposes to apply the concepts of liminality and temporality elaborated by Hamid Nacify (2001) to the analysis of the themes related to the Italian-Australian diaspora in the films of Giorgio Mangiamele.

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1 The Representation of the Italian Australian Diaspora in the Films of Giorgio Mangiamele with Particular Reference to the Two Versions of 'The Spag' Liminarieta e temporalita nell interpretazioni cinematografiche della diaspora italoaustraliana di Giorgio Mangiamele Gaetano Rando , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: La diaspora italiana dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale 2007; (p. 119-132; 349-362)
1 y separately published work icon La diaspora italiana dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale The Italian diaspora after the Second World War Jim Hagan (editor), Gaetano Rando (editor), Pepita Andreis (translator), Bivongi : AM International , 2007 Z1537685 2007 anthology criticism
1 Introduction. Italian Australian Studies : A (Post)Colonial Perspective Gerry Turcotte , Gaetano Rando , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literary and Social Diasporas : An Italian Australian Perspective 2007; (p. 9-17)
1 2 y separately published work icon Literary and Social Diasporas : An Italian Australian Perspective Gaetano Rando (editor), Gerry Turcotte (editor), Brussels : Peter Lang , 2007 Z1486031 2007 anthology criticism
1 Italian-Australian Poetry by First Generation Writers: An Overview Gaetano Rando , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 5 2006; (p. 39-57) Rando investigates '[p]oetry in volume form written by Italian migrants in Australia' that 'began to appear at the end of the 1940s...' He concludes that '[f]or some writers the passage to a new world and a new life involves the realisation of a richer and fuller life. For others, however, the long crossing has not lived up to its promise. The dream did not become reality and nostalgia triggers a sense of not belonging either to the past or to the present, a metaphysical wandering that cannot be fully resolved. While some poetry deals with the social realities of the diaspora, most provides perceptions of the thoughts and feelings that constitute the inner life of the migrant, the constant and ever-shifting appraisal of two different worlds and two different cultures in the attempt to demythologise and remythologise past and present in the light of new experiences.'
1 Tales of Internment : The Story of Andrea La Macchia Gaetano Rando , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Enemy Aliens : The Internment of Italian Migrants in Australia during the Second World War 2005;
1 Introduction : Diasporic Spectrality : Minorities and Cultural Assertions in Canada, Australia and Beyond Gerry Turcotte , Gaetano Rando , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Canadian Studies , vol. 23 no. 2 2005; (p. 1-11)
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