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Language of my Choosing Anne Pia

Language of my Choosing By Anne Pia

Language of my Choosing by Anne Pia

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Summary

This is the question Anne Pia continually asked of herself growing up in the Italian-Scots community of post-World War Two Edinburgh. Yet - like her relationship with her own mother - her `belonging' in her Italian and Scottish heritages remains to this day unresolved and complex.

Language of my Choosing Summary

Language of my Choosing: The candid life-memoir of an Italian Scot by Anne Pia

How do you choose your nationality?

This is a question that Anne Pia often asked herself whilst growing up in Edinburgh. Born to Scottish-Italian parents, she was sent to Catholic School in contrast with her Scots-Italian cousins and spent her days helping out in the family cafe in Edinburgh. Tackling themes such as growing up, romantic love and motherhood, Pia's memoir traces her journey as she discovers her place in the world.

Studying in France, Pia tries to come to terms with her unconventional family and the two nationalities she bridges. A truly honest book that delves into hard-hitting issues without veering into the sentimental, Pia's memoir will strike a chord with readers of any nationality.

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Language of My Choosing throws fresh light on the Italian community in Scotland and gives its women their individual voice in a new way. This story resonates with the challenges of migration and immigration which we continue to face today. Donald Smith, Director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre

The language of the title is that of the author's selfrealisation, as a professional, a mother and an artist. That language, born between different cultures, communities and religions, and between public and domestic life, emerges grateful, nurturing and affirmative. Meg Bateman, Poet

Bold and honest, raw at times but ultimately celebratory, beautifully written and razor sharp; a wonderful blend of autobiography and social history. Ann Marie Di Mambro, Playwright and Television Screenwriter

This is the story of a brave and clever woman who refused to deliver the lines that had been prepared for her by the Scottish Italian community that had both nurtured and wounded her. So she set about finding a language of her own choosing that would express the passions of her own restless soul. She has written a book that will challenge its readers to tear up all the scripts society has written for them and find their own words. Richard Holloway

About Anne Pia

Anne Pia is based in Edinburgh. The grandchild of Italian immigrants in Scotland, she was born in Edinburgh but raised surrounded by the food, traditions and dialect of southern Italy. Her Italian grandmother was a major influence in her life. Anne has passed on her grandmother's sense of style, love of food and wise views of life to her three daughters: Camilla aged 36, Roberta aged 31 and Sophie-Louise aged 28.

She has a long experience of writing for different audiences. A language graduate and former teacher with a recent Doctorate in Education (2008), she has been published many times in professional and academic journals, the Times Educational Supplement and the Scottish Educational Review. As a government official and HM Inspector, she has been responsible for national reports for a range of stakeholders on education in the adult learning world.

Since retiring from education, her poetry has been published in Northwords Now, Poetry Scotland, New Voices Press, Lunar Poetry, The Fat Damsel and several times in London's South Bank Poetry Magazine. Her work has also been published online in Far Off Places, Poet and Geek and Ink, Sweat & Tears. Her poem 'Viticuso 1913 and 2005' has been translated into Italian.

She also plays the mandolin and is an active participant in musical activities throughout Scotland as a member of the Edinburgh Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra and The Poetics a small group who have played music at a number of poetry festivals around Scotland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Author's Note

Openings
A Complicated Relationship with Milk

Backlights - Backdrop to my Life
Where it All Started: Viticuso, Frosinone, Italy
The Night Neighbours Became the Enemy
The Sinking of the Arandora Star

Highlights - Early Influences
A Contentious Marriage
The Power of an Italian Grandmother
A Family and Community in Transition
An Appraisal and Matters of Choice
Walking with and Losing Grandma
Terra Straniera: An Education

Spotlights
Glorious France: A Study in Self-Making
A Reluctant Homecoming
The Copper Kettle Chronicles
On the Matter of Rooting
Good Times with My Mother
Religion and Sexuality
The Loss of My Mother
The Oak Tree
The Mammissima

Footlights
Concluding Thoughts

Viticusar
The Language of Viticuso and Thereabouts

Timeline

Additional information

GOR008282300
9781910745915
191074591X
Language of my Choosing: The candid life-memoir of an Italian Scot by Anne Pia
Anne Pia
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Luath Press Ltd
20170415
256
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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