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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.
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.
"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'?
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