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The Newfoundland Diaspora

Autor Jennifer Bowering Delisle
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2013
Out-migration, driven by high unemployment and a floundering economy, has been a defining aspect of Newfoundland society for well over a century, and it reached new heights with the cod moratorium in 1992. This Newfoundland diaspora has had a profound impact on the provinces literature. Many writers and scholars have referred to Newfoundland out-migration as a diaspora, but few have examined the theoretical implications of applying this contested term to a predominantly inter-provincial movement of mainly white, economically motivated migrants. The Newfoundland Diaspora argues that diaspora helpfully references the painful displacement of a group whose members continue to identify with each other and with the homeland. It examines important literary works of the Newfoundland diaspora, including the poetry of E.J. Pratt, the drama of David French, the fiction of Donna Morrissey and Wayne Johnston, and the memoirs of David Macfarlane. These works are the sites of a broad inquiry into the theoretical flashpoints of affect, diasporic authenticity, nationalism, race, and ethnicity. The literature of the Newfoundland diaspora both contributes to and responds to critical movements in Canadian literature and culture, querying the place of regional, national, and ethnic affiliations in a literature drawn along the borders of the nation-state. This diaspora plays a part in defining Canada even as it looks beyond the borders of Canada as a literary community.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781554588947
ISBN-10: 1554588944
Pagini: 220
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 154 x 228 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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Table of Contents for
The Newfoundland Diaspora: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration, by Jennifer Delisle

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration

Part One: Defining the Newfoundland Diaspora

1 Newfoundland and the Concept of Diaspora

Part Two: Affective Responses

2 Donna Morrissey and the Search for Prairie Gold

3 "The 'Going Home Again' Complaint": Carl Leggo and Nostalgia for Newfoundland

Part Three: Is the Newfoundlander "Authentic" in the Diaspora?

4 E.J. Pratt and the Gateway to Canada

5 "A Papier Mâché Rock": Wayne Johnston and Rejecting Regionalism

Part Four: Imagining the Newfoundland Nation

6 "This Is Their Country Now": David French, Confederation, and the Imagined Community

7 Writing the "Old Lost Land": Johnston Part Two

Part Five: Postmodern Ethnicity and Memoirs from Away

8 Helen Buss / Margaret Clarke and the Negotiation of Identity

9 The "Holdin' Ground": David Macfarlane and the Second Generation

Conclusion: Writing in Diaspora Space

Notes

Works Cited

Index


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