Title With your words in my hands : the letters of Antonietta Petris and Loris Palma / edited and translated by Sonia Cancian ; foreword by Antonietta Petris ; afterword by Donna R. Gabaccia

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 308 pages) : illustrations Series McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 51 McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 51. Contents Part One. "Neither Here nor There" : the letters from September 1948 to December 1948 -- Part Two. "Worlds Apart, and Near to Heart" : the letters from January 1949 to July 1949 Summary "Following Antonietta and Loris's first kiss in the shadows of the Italian Alps barely a year after the end of the Second World War, the couple's courtship was separated by a distance far greater than could ever have been imagined. With Antonietta's family moving to Montreal, migration entered the couple's intimate worlds, shifting the distance between them from their hometowns of Ampezzo and Venice to Montreal and Venice. Throughout their transatlantic separation, the young lovers fervidly wrote each other until they were reunited in Canada in 1949. With Your Words in My Hands tells a story about love and migration as written and read, idealized and imagined, through daily correspondence. Sonia Cancian recovers a rare complete epistolary record of an immigrant experience defined by love and sustained in writing, translating the letters with deftness and an ear for the immediacy of emotion and longing they embody. Cancian gives context to these exchanges dating from the beginning of the largest migration movement from Italy to Canada, showing how love, frustration, fear, sadness, and empathy were palpable elements that inflected the quotidian--bureaucratic processes, employment, family life--and defined immigrant experience. For the countless couples whose love is fragmented by separation but woven together with envelopes and stamps, or onscreen in today's instant messaging, these letters remind us how the experience of distance and proximity, absence and presence, can be reconfigured within the world of intimate correspondence."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Sonia Cancian is a historian at McGill University's Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal Letters translated from the Italian Print version record Subject Petris, Antonietta -- Correspondence Palma, Loris, -2007 -- Correspondence Italians -- Correspondence Immigrants -- Canada -- Correspondence Immigrants -- Italy -- Correspondence SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration Immigrants Italians Canada Italy Genre/Form personal correspondence. Personal correspondence Personal correspondence. Correspondance privée. Form Electronic book Author Container of (expression): Petris, Antonietta. Correspondence. Selections. English Container of (expression): Palma, Loris, -2007. Correspondence. Selections. English Cancian, Sonia, 1965- translator, editor. ISBN 9780228007142 0228007143 9780228007159 0228007151

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