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The Irish in Newfoundland have developed their culture and identity over the past 300 years in the context of the island's changing political status from independent territory, to British colony, and to Canadian province (since 1949). Newfoundland song, dance and dialect all display evident Irish features and have played an important role in the marketing of the province as a tourist destination. Recent provincial government initiatives to forge contacts with Celtic Tiger Ireland and thus revive this powerfully “imagined” Atlantic network have also contributed to the notion of the “Irishness” of Newfoundland culture. The narrative of Newfoundland as an Irish place, however, has always been (and continues to be) contested; this is most evident in a local discourse of space and place that is grounded in two predominant narratives of the Newfoundland nation: Republican and Confederate. The author illustrates how this contested spatial discourse has recently played out over the disputed terrain of the The Rooms, the new home of Newfoundland's provincial museum, art gallery and archives.
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The discursive analysis applied in this study is intended to reveal the relationship between the social (the ownership of land) and the literary (the poem as quest for identity). The testimony of the gaucho Martín Fierro is brought face to face here with the emergence of violence (the killing of the black man). The slaughterhouse (matadero) as an epistemological metaphor thus underscores the inscription of violence in the literary expression of the city: it is an image that subsumes under the same logic the killing of the black man and the politics of systematic extinction of the Argentine Indians. The picaresque aspect, the author argues, plays an essential role in allowing the refusal of the Other to be identified with a cultural practice deeply-ingrained in the Spanish tradition.
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This article presents the main results of a study conducted on the Congrès mondial acadien (CMA, or World Acadian Congress) held in Prince Edward Island and southeastern New Brunswick in 2019. A major cultural event in Acadia, organized every five years since 1994, the CMA aims to strengthen the ties between Acadia and its diaspora. It offers participants the opportunity to enjoy identity experiences, to have meaningful encounters, particularly in the context of family reunions, and to discuss Acadia and its diaspora. Our study focused on the meaning of the participant's experiences, particularly in terms of identity.