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Demeter And Persephone Research Paper

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The myth of Demeter and Persephone, worshipped in antiquity throughout Magna Graecia with a devotion emulated only by the Southern Italian worship of the Christian Madonna, and is perhaps the myth that has a powerful effect for women of Southern Italian ancestry. Although geographically removed from the kingdom of Persephone, Italian American women carry Persephone's story as part of their cultural baggage. Persephone is a mythical traveler, a young woman who, willingly or not, adjusts to travels back and forth between two worlds. She understands the experience of living between different cultures, languages, identities. The story of Persephone provides a bridge, a life line between two groups of writers who have not, thus far, encountered

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