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Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium has in its purview all
aspects of culture, language, and history of the Celtic peoples,
from ancient to modern times. PHCC, 31 features "Culture, Identity
and the Medieval Revival in Victorian Wales," the 2011 J. V.
Kelleher lecture given by Huw Pryce of Bangor University, Wales,
which looks at Victorian views of the past in Wales. The volume
also considers the linguistic shifts in several of the Celtic
languages, both in early periods and more recent times, and it
contains articles concerning the history, culture, and literatures
of Ireland, Wales, and Cornwall. In addition, PHCC, 31 includes
several articles on historiography in various areas and times, as
well as others that examine later reflections on the Easter Rising
in Ireland (1916), the renewed interest in regional language in
Cornwall, the historic reflexes of the title Bragmaticus, and
literary reflexes of archaeological remains in medieval Wales.
"Women in the Judgment Hall" serves up a rich, unpretentious tale
of a broken-down South American country, with no attempts of
white-washing the fears and frailties of the marginalized. *** Ana
is a brazen, idealistic teenager intent on carving her own destiny
beyond the unspeakable poverty of the Tenement yard, while Reeda,
her more subdued Indian friend, struggles to find her inner
strength and contend with the life of subjugation imposed upon her
by her family. *** The novel, told with brutal honesty, brings to
light the poignant story of their journey into womanhood, and quest
to reclaim their voices within a society ready to judge them at
every turn. *** In a backward country where wayward men are
exalted, and where flogging is seen as a mechanism to "'set yuh
woman straight'... "can these women flee the wicked sentencing
within their 'Judgment Hall'?
Excerpt from Women in the Judgment Hall Intent on not feeling the
pain, my other senses took over, and I started to notice other
things that were not so obvious before, like the frumpy smell that
oozed out from under MaTine's skirt and those almost raised
stretch-marks that ran over her lumpy thighs from as far as my
strained eyes could see until they disappeared in the area beneath
my face, and I shuddered at the thought of those disgusting marks
being contagious, and suddenly my facial skin in the area that
pressed up against her sweaty thighs was scratching, but I dare not
move.
A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely
spoken language in Canada, and Irish was spoken by hundreds of
thousands of people in the United States. A new awareness of the
large North American Gaelic diaspora, long overlooked by
historians, folklorists, and literary scholars, has emerged in
recent decades. North American Gaels, representing the first tandem
exploration of these related migrant ethnic groups, examines the
myriad ways Gaelic-speaking immigrants from marginalized societies
have negotiated cultural spaces for themselves in their new
homeland. In the macaronic verses of a Newfoundland fisherman, the
pointed addresses of an Ontario essayist, the compositions of a
Montana miner, and lively exchanges in newspapers from Cape Breton
to Boston to New York, these groups proclaim their presence in
vibrant traditional modes fluently adapted to suit North American
climes. Through careful investigations of this diasporic Gaelic
narrative and its context, from the mid-eighteenth century to the
twenty-first, the book treats such overarching themes as the
sociolinguistics of minority languages, connection with one's
former home, and the tension between the desire for modernity and
the enduring influence of tradition. Staking a claim for Gaelic
studies on this continent, North American Gaels shines new light on
the ways Irish and Scottish Gaels have left an enduring mark
through speech, story, and song.
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