Celts in the Americas

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Celtic-speaking peoples of Brittany, Cornwall, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Scottish Highlands and Wales played a vital role in the history of Europe and the Americas. Immigrant Celtic communities enjoyed many significant accomplishments explored in this volume.

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Table des matières
Cover 1
Title Page 2
Copyright Notice 3
Table of Contents 4
Introduction: The Past and Future Celt 6
Part I: Overviews of Celtic Peoples 19
Fishermen and Farmers, Priests and Poets: The Bretons in North America 19
Chameleon Celts: The Cornish in the Americas 40
Emancipation through Exile:Irish Speakers in the Americas 57
Bards of the Forests, Prairies and Skyscrapers:Scottish Gaels in the Americas 77
Miners, Methodists and Minstrels: The Welsh in the Americas and their Legacy 95
Part II: Language 118
Understanding Canadian Multiculturalism Policies and Cultural Diversity in a 21st-Century Context from a “Celtic” Perspective 118
Revitalizing Welsh in the Chubut Province, Argentina:The Role of the Welsh Language Project 146
Gaelic Revitalization Efforts in Nova Scotia:Reversing Language Shift in the 21st Century 161
Part III: Cultural Expression 188
The Stranger’s Land: Historical Traditions and Postmodern Temptations in the Celtic Soundscapes of North America 188
Micro-Toponymy in Gaelic Nova Scotia:Some Examples from Central Cape Breton 210
The Ceudach Tale in Scotland and Cape Breton 219
Part IV: Identity and Race 249
The Earth in a Suitcase: Cultural Hybridization in the Welsh and Cornish Diasporas 249
Whose Friend from the Old Country?The Welsh-Language American Press and National Identity in the 19th Century 271
How Scottish Highlanders Became White:The Introduction of Racialism to Gaelic Literature andCulture 284
The “Good Indian” Stories in Mac-Talla 299
Part V: Interethnic Interactions 306
Is the “Pan-” in Pan-Celticism the “Pan-” in Pan-Africanism? Language, Race and Diaspora 306
The Indigenous Atlantic: Welsh-Language Poetry and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas 324
Speaking Mi’kmaw or Gaelic? The Linguistic Policy of the Catholic Church toward Missionaries Sent to Eastern Canada, 17th-19th Centuries 336
Notes on Contributors 350
Other Conference Abstracts 355
Index 372
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Éditeur
Cape Breton University Press
Catégories
Anthropologie sociale et culturelle, Migration, immigration et émigration, Études culturelles: coutumes et traditions, Anthropologie, Folklore, mythes et légendes
Parution
Pages
376
Chapitres
31
Langue
Anglais
ISBN EPUB
9781927492277
ISBN Papier
9781897009758