Memoir and Identity in Welsh Patagonia
Voices from a Settler Community in Argentina
9781783169689
Distributed for University of Wales Press
Memoir and Identity in Welsh Patagonia
Voices from a Settler Community in Argentina
This 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 proper context as an integral part of contemporary Argentina. Addressing the implications of the settler colonialism of the foundational myth of Chubut and its place in the larger question of settler colonialism throughout Argentina, it draws on the literature of the under-studied period immediately preceding the turn-of-the-twentieth-century revitalization of the Welsh community in Patagonia. Ultimately, it presents a newly broad, much richer panorama of what it means to be Welsh in Argentina, free from old stereotypes and fully part of the contemporary nation.

Reviews
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
A snapshot of the history of Y Wladfa
Memoir and memory
2 Writing Welsh Patagonia
Y Wladfa in its Argentine context
Marking Welshness in Chubut
3 Valmai Jones (1910-1994) – Anxiety about Welshness
Valmai Jones (1910-1994)
Atgofion am Y Wladfa
Between Wales and Argentina
In (and away from) the melting pot
Patagonian Welshness and diasporic belonging
Oscillating within Welshness
Closing Points
4 Fred Green — The Welsh Patagonian Gaucho
Fred Green (1913-2002)
Pethau Patagonia
A sense of Welshness
A sense of Patagonian Welshness
Patagonian ‘welsh’
The ‘lasting friendship’
Closing points
5 Juan Daniel Moreteau — Welshness Disowned
Juan Daniel Moreteau (1915-2006)
Tres etapas de una vida
Disowning Welshness
Opposing Welshness
Claiming Argentineness
Closing points
6 Carlos Luis Williams — Ineradicable Welshness
Carlos Luis Williams (1953-)
Puerto Madryn y el triunfo de mis Padres: El Amor
‘Organic’ Welshness
Religion, music and other markers of Welshness
Wales as ancestral homeland and the Patagonian melting pot
Patagonia’s indigenous peoples
Closing points
7 Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
A snapshot of the history of Y Wladfa
Memoir and memory
2 Writing Welsh Patagonia
Y Wladfa in its Argentine context
Marking Welshness in Chubut
3 Valmai Jones (1910-1994) – Anxiety about Welshness
Valmai Jones (1910-1994)
Atgofion am Y Wladfa
Between Wales and Argentina
In (and away from) the melting pot
Patagonian Welshness and diasporic belonging
Oscillating within Welshness
Closing Points
4 Fred Green — The Welsh Patagonian Gaucho
Fred Green (1913-2002)
Pethau Patagonia
A sense of Welshness
A sense of Patagonian Welshness
Patagonian ‘welsh’
The ‘lasting friendship’
Closing points
5 Juan Daniel Moreteau — Welshness Disowned
Juan Daniel Moreteau (1915-2006)
Tres etapas de una vida
Disowning Welshness
Opposing Welshness
Claiming Argentineness
Closing points
6 Carlos Luis Williams — Ineradicable Welshness
Carlos Luis Williams (1953-)
Puerto Madryn y el triunfo de mis Padres: El Amor
‘Organic’ Welshness
Religion, music and other markers of Welshness
Wales as ancestral homeland and the Patagonian melting pot
Patagonia’s indigenous peoples
Closing points
7 Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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