Memoir And Identity In Welsh Patagonia

Author : Geraldine Lublin
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783169689

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Memoir and Identity in Welsh Patagonia by Geraldine Lublin Pdf

This literary investigation of identity construction in twentieth-century Welsh Patagonia breaks new ground by looking at the Welsh community in Chubut not as a quaint anomaly, but in its context as an integral part of Argentina. Its focus is on historicising and problematising the adoption of the so-called ‘Welsh feat’ as foundational narrative for Chubut and its settler colonial implications in the larger settler colonial formation that is Argentina, where indigenous re-emergence seems to be leading the way towards real pluralism. Exploring the understudied period immediately preceding the celebrated turn-of-the-century revitalisation, Memoir and Identity in Welsh Patagonia presents four memoirs written in Welsh and Spanish by Welsh Patagonian descendants, read against the grain to foreground the tensions, dissonances and ambivalences emerging from the individual narratives. The study then probes the romanticised stereotype of the Welsh descendant so prevalent in media representations, in order to describe a broader, richer panorama of what it means to be a Welsh descendant in Patagonia in a modern Argentine context.

Author : Celina Osuna,Aidan Tynan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781040044681

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Storied Deserts by Celina Osuna,Aidan Tynan Pdf

Storied Deserts makes a crucial and critical intervention in the field of environmental humanities by showcasing an emerging body of research on desert places from around the world. Deserts, despite dominant stereotypes of wasteland and barrenness, are culturally and ecologically abundant places. This edited volume sets out to reimagine the world’s desert places and the very concept of "the desert" itself, taking a boldly interdisciplinary and multicultural approach. Authors engage in literary ecocriticism and ecopoetics, film and visual studies, critical theory, personal and transdisciplinary reflection, creative practices, and historical scholarship. Through their diverse range of perspectives, contributors show how arid lands have been and can be understood as sites of narrative production, places where signs and imaginaries are born from the materialities of space and entanglement. In this way, this volume highlights how the storied matter of the Earth’s deserts informs lived realities, environmental histories, cinematic and literary imaginaries, political conflicts, and even intellectual categories such as "the human" and "the elemental". Ultimately, this book shows that reimagining desert places can help us to grapple with the epochal challenges of the Anthropocene. It is an important and engaging collection for scholars and students across disciplines that helps establish the value of desert humanities.

Author : Steph Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910901342

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Hiraeth by Steph Davies Pdf

Dyma hanes y profiad Cymreig ym Mhatagonia i gyd-fynd â'r dathliad 150 mlwyddiant ers y fordaith, wedi'i ddweud trwy storiau gonest, angerddol ac ysbrydol gan y pobl sydd bellach yn byw fel rhan o'r Wladfa Gymreig ym Mhatagonia. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Author : Patricia Skinner
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786831903

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The Welsh and the Medieval World by Patricia Skinner Pdf

How did the Welsh travel beyond their geographical borders in the Middle Ages? What did they do, what did they take with them in their baggage, and what did they bring back? This book seeks for the first time to capture the medieval Welsh on the move, and core to its purpose is the exploration of identity within and outside the Welsh territories – particularly since ‘Welsh’ may have become a fluid term to describe a stranger, often pejoratively. The contributors also seek to explore the nature of ‘Welsh history’ as a discipline. How can a consideration of the Welsh abroad draw upon wider paradigms of nationhood, diaspora and colonisation; economic migration; gender relations; and the pursuit of educational, religious and cultural opportunities? Is there anything specifically ‘Welsh’ about the experiences of medieval migrants and correspondents? And what can the medieval experience of Welsh people exploring the then known world contribute to the longer-term history of emigration and exchange? Examining archaeological, historical and literary evidence together, this book enables a better understanding of the ways in which people from Wales interacted with and understood their near and distant neighbours.

Author : Jon Gower
Publisher : Gomer Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
ISBN : 1848518846

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Gwalia Patagonia by Jon Gower Pdf

A book to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Welsh emigration to Patagonia, a signal moment in the history of Wales and Argentina.

Author : Fernanda Peñaloza,Jason Wilson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
ISBN : 3039109170

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Patagonia by Fernanda Peñaloza,Jason Wilson Pdf

"This volume is a selection of the papers presented during the international conference Patagonia: Myths and Realities organised through the Centre of Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester and held in September 2005 at the Manchester Museum"--Introd.

Author : C. A. Brebbia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
ISBN : 1853128570

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Little Wales Across the Sea by C. A. Brebbia Pdf

Author : William Casnodyn Rhys
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781411634336

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A Welsh Song in Patagonia by William Casnodyn Rhys Pdf

William Casnodyn Rhys, a young theology student, dreamed of establishing a Welsh colony where the Welsh language and culture could be preserved. A few years later, the Baptist congregation of the Chubut Valley Colony offered this young pastor of the Baptist Congregation of Swansea, Wales, an invitation to pastor the chapel they were building. Rhys accepted the offer, and with his young wife and baby daughter Myfanwy, sailed in 1876 to Patagonian shores where they began their new home in the lower valley of the Chubut river, called Chupat by the Tehuelche Indians, and Camwy by the Welsh. For over 70 years, Rhys' manuscript about life on the Welsh Colony in Patagonia, Pioneers in Patagonia, together with the talks "15 Years in Patagonia," lay dormant in the archives of The National Library of Wales. The manuscripts were finally discovered and for the first time are available in English, as compiled in 2005 by Rhys' grandson, David H. Rhys Ph.D.

Author : Glyn Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015021886158

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The Welsh in Patagonia by Glyn Williams Pdf

Author : Michele Langfield,Peta Roberts
Publisher : Crossing Press, Incorporated
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0957829183

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Welsh Patagonians by Michele Langfield,Peta Roberts Pdf

Author : Ed Gold
Publisher : Gomer Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1848514379

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Patagonia - Gwlad Estron by Ed Gold Pdf

Patagonia: one man's fascinating vision of the present, which is ever mindful of the past. Weaving harsh yet beautiful landscapes with faces that are hard to forget around a central presence of Welsh communities and culture on a far continent, this is a living memoir of life in Patagonia at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Settlers from Wales famously moved to this corner of Argentina to establish a colony in 1865, and now the fourth and fifth generations carry on the story of a unique chapter in Welsh history. In a trilingual volume of striking photographs, Ed Gold shows his talent for recording all aspects of life. Inspired by his interest in Wales, and in documenting the lives of people connected to historically important culture, he spent two and a half years creating a significant body of work in Patagonia.

Author : Jane Aaron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015070742088

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Nineteenth-century Women's Writing in Wales by Jane Aaron Pdf

Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales argues that the way in which women came to perceive and represent themselves as Welsh was profoundly affected by the gender ideology of the Romantic and Victorian periods. This volume introduces the reader to a number of critically-neglected Welsh women authors at work during the years 1780 to 1900, tracing the development of the Welsh nation as its women, in particular, imagined and helped to create it. Focusing on the rediscovery and inclusion of many forgotten writers, Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales analyzes the development of Wales as a gendered nation and will be of interest to scholars of gender and literary history alike.

Author : Pamela Petro
Publisher : HarperPerennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 000655010X

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Travels in an Old Tongue by Pamela Petro Pdf

The idiosyncratic and witty travelogue of a young Welsh-speaking woman who travels the globe in search of Welsh communities. - The acclaimed debut of a remarkably witty and engaging travel writer (Bill Bryson meets Jan Morris). Her next book will explore the world through its theme parks! - At once a fascinating travelogue and an innovative book about the consequences of language. 'A delightful read - a marvellous mixture of wit, nostalgia, character description and atmosphere setting. Anyone who is Welsh, or who has connections with Wales, should read it, as should anyone who isn't, and hasn't, but who simply wants to work out what on earth is going on in the minds, hearts and mouths of those for whom Welsh is the language of heaven.' Professor David Crystal

Author : Bruce Chatwin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504038348

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On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin Pdf

Whitbread Award Winner: A novel by the author of In Patagonia, about a pair of twins and their long, remarkable lives in the farmlands of Wales. For forty-two years, identical twins Lewis and Benjamin Jones have shared a bed, a farm, and a life. But the world has scarred and warped them each in different ways. Lewis is sturdy, still strong enough at eighty to wield an ax all day, and though he’s hardly ever ventured outside his little village on the English border, he dreams of far-off lands. Benjamin is gentler, a cook whose favorite task is delivering baby lambs, and even in his old age, he remains devoted to the memory of his mother. The unusual twins have seen a country change and an empire fall, and in their shared memory lies an epic story of the century that remade Britain. From the stories of their father’s youth to their own dotage, there is nothing these farmers haven’t seen—or heard. Famed travel author Bruce Chatwin brings his unique understanding of landscape and culture to his debut novel, an intense examination of a little patch of Wales. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Literary Award, and written in the tradition of Wuthering Heights and The Mayor of Casterbridge, this entry on the list of “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die” is an all-time classic from the author of bestsellers such as In Patagonia and The Songlines. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Bruce Chatwin including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Author : George Chaworth Musters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
ISBN : UOM:39015018047343

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At Home with the Patagonians by George Chaworth Musters Pdf