Memoir and Identity in Welsh Patagonia
Voices from a Settler Community in Argentina
Distributed for University of Wales Press
8 halftones, 1 map
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- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
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
Review Quotes
M. Wynn Thomas, Swansea University
“This fascinating study approaches the over-familiar, frequently romanticised, story of Welsh settlement in Patagonia from an entirely new and strikingly revealing angle. It draws on fresh evidence—in the form of personal memoirs spanning the century and a half since the ‘founding’ moment—to track the complex politico-cultural process of negotiating identity as between Wales and Argentina that has preoccupied families of Welsh descent. The result is a sympathetic but hard-headed study of the different stages in the slow but inexorable process of accommodation to Argentinean ‘national’ norms.”
David Rock, University of California
“Geraldine Lublin is quite remarkable in being trilingual and perfectly literate in three languages. Her book is probably the best to date on the Patagonian Welsh . . . and Memoir and Identity is also one of the outstanding works on ethnic communities throughout Latin America, impressive for its depth, range and originality. Lublin analyses autobiography cross-generationally with admirable skill, revealing wide knowledge of theoretical works on ethnicity.”
Bill Jones, Cardiff University
“An absorbing, innovative and richly nuanced study of identity construction as Welsh and as Argentinian in twentieth century Patagonia, as revealed in four Welsh Patagonian memoirs. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Welsh experiences overseas and, more widely, in how settler descendants in plural societies negotiate their multiple identities.”
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