Linguistic Diasporas, Narrative and Performance

The Irish in Argentina

Sarah O'Brien (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

VIII, 203 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-51420-8 (ISBN)

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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 aninterdisciplinary audience including scholars of migration, oral history, folklore, bilingualism, memory, sociolinguistics, narrative performance and Irish Diaspora studies.

Sarah O'Brien is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and Director of the Centre for English Language Learning and Teaching there. She was formerly Director of Bilingual Education at Northern New Mexico College, USA, and a recipient of the IRCHSS doctoral award for her research on the Irish in Post-World War II Britain. Her publications explore linguistic and cultural acquisition in contemporary migrant communities with a particular focus on Latin America and Ireland.

Chapter 1. Oral Dialogue and Performance.- Chapter 2. Historical Context.- Chapter 3. Space and Place.- Chapter 4. A Search for Belonging.- Chapter 5. Getting on with the Neighbours.- Chapter 6. Eating our Words: Food, Language and the Preservation of Identity.- Chapter 7. Post-Peronism and the Collapse of Community.- Chapter 8. The Festivalization of Irish Ethnicity.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2017
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 203 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Bilingualism and multilingualism • Cultural Studies • Discourse analysis • European History • Hiberno-Argentine identity • Historiography • History of Britain and Ireland • Irish emigration • Language and Identity • Language: history and general works • Latin American culture • memory and discourse • Memory Studies • Multilingualism • oral narratives • Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics • Social Sciences • Sociolinguistics
ISBN-10	3-319-51420-2 / 3319514202
ISBN-13	978-3-319-51420-8 / 9783319514208
Zustand	Neuware