Linguistic Diasporas, Narrative and Performance
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Linguistic Diasporas, Narrative and Performance

The Irish in Argentina

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Linguistic Diasporas, Narrative and Performance

The Irish in Argentina

About this book

This book explores the present-day Irish Diaspora in Argentina, using oral narrative and a sociolinguistic theoretical framework to draw out the features that define contemporary Hiberno-Argentine identity. The author analyzes the spoken memories and discourses of Irish-Argentine descendants to trace the socio-political evolution of a bilingual, bicultural community from World War II to the present day. In so doing, O'Brien reveals a legacy of emigration that is without precedent in the global Irish Diaspora, and which is deeply relevant to today's global Irish citizenry in its challenging of preconceived notions of what it is to be Irish in the New World. As well as contributing to understandings of an immigrant linguistic journey over three generations, the book also provides a vital ethnographic portrait of an Irish descendant community that is acutely aware of its vulnerability and invisibility in an increasingly pluralistic South American society. This book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience including scholars of migration, oral history, folklore, bilingualism, memory, sociolinguistics, narrative performance and Irish Diaspora studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Contents
  3. 1: Introduction
  4. 2: Language, Memory and Diaspora
  5. 3: Do They Not Know What I Want to Say?
  6. 4: To Nowhere, to Any Place
  7. 5: An Affected Life
  8. 6: Getting on with the Neighbors
  9. 7: Eating Our Words: Food, Language and the Preservation of Identity
  10. 8: Festivalizations of Irish Ethnicity
  11. 9: Post-Peronism and the Collapse of Community
  12. 10: Conclusion
  13. Glossary
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index