'Like a peeling on the water': Songs of Dislocation and Displacement in the Prince Edward Island Gaelic Context.

Iain S. MacPherson

'Like a peeling on the water': Songs of Dislocation and Displacement in the Prince Edward Island Gaelic Context.

Iain S. MacPherson

Modern Languages and Linguistics Research

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Abstract

An examination of two Scottish Gaelic song-poems from the mid-nineteenth century literature of emigration/immigration produced in the British North American colony of Prince Edward Island with special attention to the rhetorics and narratives of the pro and contra sides of the debate regarding the merits of emigration from the Scottish Highlands to the New World. The author presents a close reading of the original texts in Scottish Gaelic with their being placed in the broader context of Canadian (pre and post 1867 Confederation) migrant writing from the Gaelic diasporic communties of the Maritime Provinces.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	179-200
Journal	Scottish Gaelic Studies
Volume	23
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - Dec 2007

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Keywords

Scottish Gaelic
emigration literature
migrant writing

Displaced poets: migrant writing from the margins of movement and memory in a diasporic and transgressive Scottish Gaelic context
MacPherson, J. S. (Author), O Neill, M. (Supervisor) & De Brun, F. (Supervisor), Jun 2020
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

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'Like a peeling on the water': Songs of Dislocation and Displacement in the Prince Edward Island Gaelic Context.

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Displaced poets: migrant writing from the margins of movement and memory in a diasporic and transgressive Scottish Gaelic context

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