V. 11 N. 11 (2021): Ireland and Latin America: an Amazing Network
Sezione monografica / Monographic Section

Becoming Irish-Argentine in the Argentine pampas: Identity Representations in Private Voices in Edmundo Murray’s "Becoming Irlandés"

María Isabel Arriaga
National University of La Pampa

Pubblicato 2021-06-16

Parole chiave

  • diaspora,
  • emigration,
  • home,
  • identity,
  • representations

Come citare

Arriaga, M. I. (2021). Becoming Irish-Argentine in the Argentine pampas: Identity Representations in Private Voices in Edmundo Murray’s "Becoming Irlandés". Studi Irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies, 11(11). https://doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-12872

Abstract

During the nineteenth century, more than a third of the Argentine population was formed by immigrants, which included the largest Irish diaspora within Latin America. Personal letters and memoirs constitute invaluable first-hand testimonies of immigrants’ lives. Becoming IrlandésPrivate Narratives of the Irish Emigration to Argentina (1844-1912), formed by two collections of letters and two memoirs plus contextualized and historical information, edited by independent researcher and writer Edmundo Murray (2006a), offers rich insights about their local experience and culture. The purpose of this paper is to analyse strategies of identification in the discourse of those Irish born or Argentine of Irish descendancy, through a postcolonial studies perspective and a narratological approach.

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