Newfoundland Diaspora

Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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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 province's 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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Utgivningsdatum2013-03-01
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor220
FörlagWilfrid Laurier University Press
ISBN9781554588947

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The Newfoundland Diaspora: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration, by Jennifer DelisleAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Mapping the Literature of Out-MigrationPart One: Defining the Newfoundland Diaspora1 Newfoundland and the Concept of DiasporaPart Two: Affective Responses2 Donna Morrissey and the Search for Prairie Gold3 ""The 'Going Home Again' Complaint"": Carl Leggo and Nostalgia for NewfoundlandPart Three: Is the Newfoundlander ""Authentic"" in the Diaspora?4 E.J. Pratt and the Gateway to Canada5 ""A Papier Mâché Rock"": Wayne Johnston and Rejecting RegionalismPart Four: Imagining the Newfoundland Nation6 ""This Is Their Country Now"": David French, Confederation, and the Imagined Community7 Writing the ""Old Lost Land"": Johnston Part TwoPart Five: Postmodern Ethnicity and Memoirs from Away8 Helen Buss / Margaret Clarke and the Negotiation of Identity9 The ""Holdin' Ground"": David Macfarlane and the Second GenerationConclusion: Writing in Diaspora SpaceNotesWorks CitedIndex

"Jennifer Bowering Delisle's The Newfoundland Diaspora prompts us to revise not just our conceptions of Newfoundland identity but also our understanding of the very idea of diaspora. This is a significant meditation on the shifting nature of regionalism and national identity in the age of globalization, an era of increasing migration, mobility, and deracination. At a time in which the continuous inhabitation of the same place is becoming less and less common, we need more complex and nuanced descriptions of the relationship between place, cultural identity, and collective identification, and that is what The Newfoundland Diaspora delivers." -- Herb Wyile, author of Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature (WLU Press, 2011)