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Book Memoir and Identity in Welsh Patagonia

Download or read book Memoir and Identity in Welsh Patagonia written by Geraldine Lublin and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Hiraeth

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  • Author : Steph Davies
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-12-12
  • ISBN : 9781910901342
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Hiraeth written by Steph Davies and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book Storied Deserts

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  • Author : Celina Osuna
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2024-06-28
  • ISBN : 1040044689
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Storied Deserts written by Celina Osuna and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Welsh and the Medieval World

Download or read book The Welsh and the Medieval World written by Patricia Skinner and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entry point into Welsh migration by experts: many of the contributors have longer studies that students can then read; Multi-disciplinary: shows how historical and literary sources can be read together, includes new archaeological data Showcases new work by a new generation of Welsh historians.

Book Gwalia Patagonia

Download or read book Gwalia Patagonia written by Jon Gower and published by Gomer Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Welsh emigration to Patagonia, a signal moment in the history of Wales and Argentina.

Book A Welsh Song in Patagonia

Download or read book A Welsh Song in Patagonia written by William Casnodyn Rhys and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Beyond the Pampas

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  • Author : Imogen Herrad
  • Publisher : Seren
  • Release : 2012-12-15
  • ISBN : 1854116096
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Pampas written by Imogen Herrad and published by Seren. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Pampas is an exploration of the lives of the descendents of nineteenth century Welsh settlers in Argentina. Herrad discovers a fascinating melding of Welsh and Spanish language cultures through which she explores the nature of heritage and identity. Her expectations are further challenged by the plight of Patagonia's indigenous peoples - the Tehuelche and Mapuche - with the land-related cultures and oppression by European settlers. This is an additional prism through which to view history, as is the difference Herrad discovers between metropolitan Buenos Aires and the rural hinterland. And the whole is underpinned by Herrad's personal journey of self-discovery, from an abusive childhood in Germany to acceptance in the communities of Wales and Patagonia. Herrad's openness to new experience and her wonder at the natural world result in a rich and evocative depiction of the exotic places in which she finds herself, from camping under the stars in the Andes to whale-watching on the Atlantic coast, and from the Welsh-speaking tea rooms of Chubut to the museums of lost Indian peoples.

Book Welsh Patagonians

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  • Author : Michele Langfield
  • Publisher : Crossing Press, Incorporated
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780957829183
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Welsh Patagonians written by Michele Langfield and published by Crossing Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Little Wales Across the Sea

Download or read book Little Wales Across the Sea written by C. A. Brebbia and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Welsh in Patagonia

Download or read book The Welsh in Patagonia written by Glyn Williams and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patagonia

Download or read book Patagonia written by Fernanda Peñaloza and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Book Patagonia

Download or read book Patagonia written by Matthew Rhys and published by Gomer Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Hollywood actor Matthew Rhys's photographic account of his month-long journey on horseback from the Atlantic to the Andes. His co-riders were all descendants of the 30 Welsh speakers who had made the same gruelling journey 125 years ago.

Book In Patagonia

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  • Author : Bruce Chatwin
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 0099769514
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book In Patagonia written by Bruce Chatwin and published by Random House. This book was released on 1998 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin s travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay h

Book Patagonia   Gwlad Estron

Download or read book Patagonia Gwlad Estron written by Ed Gold and published by Gomer Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Gwladfa Patagonia 1865 2000

Download or read book Gwladfa Patagonia 1865 2000 written by Richard Bryn Williams and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ramblings of a Patagonian

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  • Author : Eugenio René Griffiths
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-09
  • ISBN : 9780992983307
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Ramblings of a Patagonian written by Eugenio René Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nineteenth century Women s Writing in Wales

Download or read book Nineteenth century Women s Writing in Wales written by Jane Aaron and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.