Italian-Canadian literature

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

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Context and Precursors

The movement of people from the territories that are now Italy to those that are currently known as Canada began during the Age of Exploration and has generated, through the centuries, a rich variety of documentary and creative textual products. Though the category of Italian-Canadian writing emerged in the 1970s, its roots can be traced to the year 1653 with Francesco Giuseppe Bressani’s Breve relatione d’alcune missioni de’ PP. [Padri] della Compagnia di Giesù nella Nuova Francia [Short Relation of Some Missions of the Jesuit Fathers in New France], the first Italian-language account of life in what is today Canada. This text offers a systematic description of the colonies: the section “Situatione et inventione della Nuova Francia” [“The Situation and

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Citation: Frascà, Paolo. "Italian-Canadian literature". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 August 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19736, accessed 24 November 2024.]

19736 Italian-Canadian literature 2 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.

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