The Newfoundland diaspora [electronic resource] : mapping the literature of out-migration / Jennifer Delisle.
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- 9781554588954
- 1554588952
- Migration
- Literatur
- Newfoundlanders -- In literature
- Emigration and immigration in literature
- Canadian literature -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History and criticism
- Newfoundland
- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects
- Newfoundland, Island of (N.L.) -- In literature
- 810.9/9718 23
- PR9198.2.N4 D45 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: mapping the literature of out-migration -- pt. 1. Defining the Newfoundland diaspora. Newfoundland and the concept of diaspora -- pt. 2. Affective responses. Donna Morrissey and the search for prairie gold ; "The 'going home again' complaint": Carl Leggo and nostalgia for Newfoundland -- pt. 3. Is the Newfoundlander "authentic" in the diaspora? E.J. Pratt and the gateway to Canada ; "A papier mâche rock": Wayne Johnston and rejecting regionalism -- pt. 4. Imagining the Newfoundland nation. "This is their country now": David French, confederation, and the imagined community ; Writing the "old lost land": Johnston part two -- pt. 5. Postmodern ethnicity and memoirs from away. Helen Buss/Margaret Clarke and the negotiation of identity ; The "Holdin' ground": David Macfarlane and the second generation -- Conclusion: writing in diaspora space.
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