Browsing Research by Author "Pivato, Joseph J."
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An Italian Jesuit in Canada: Faith and the Imagination in the 'Breve Relatione' of 1653
Pivato, Joseph J. (2010-06-23)Bressani published his Breve Relatione in Italian in 1653. He had spent the years 1642 to 1650 in New France as a Jesuit missionary. As a Jesuit he was aware of the expansion of the European powers in the New World: ... -
Reconstructing History in Vassanji's 'The Magic of Saida'
Pivato, Joseph J. (2014-01-16)M.G. Vassanji's novel, The Magic of Saida (2012) deals with the return journey of Kamal Punja, a Canadian medical doctor searching for his past in Africa. The novel has two narrators: The first is Kamal who recalls the ... -
The Sherbrooke School of Comparative Canadian Literature
Pivato, Joseph J. (2011-03-30)In the 1970s some academics and creative writers at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec developed a new approach to the study of Canadian literature in both English and French which went on to have a profound influence ...