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Units Teaching this Work
| Text | Unit Name | Institution | Year |
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Paese Fortunato : Romanzo
Milan
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Feltrinelli
,
1981
Z1081324
1981
single work
novel
(taught in 1 units)
Depicting 'migrant life in Sydney...Rosa Cappiello follows the tormented lives of a random group of European women, from their incarceration in a hostel to their struggles in a series of derelict rooms and flats. They keep in touch with each other not through affection or genuine solidarity but purely through need, to escape their own desolation and solitude...This unusual and disconcerting view of migrant life does not aim to stand in judgment or reveal general truths on Australian conditions and society. It is instead a subjective account with a universal application, relating not just to Italian migrants in Australia but to all migrants everywhere. The characters are victims less of their new environment than of the circumstances which led them to seek change; ultimately they are the victims of their own natures and of the inevitable discrepancy between dream and reality.' (Source: dustjacket, Oh Lucky Country, 1984 edition)
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Australian Literature: Traditions and Revisions | University of Queensland | 2013 (Semester 1) |
