Table of Contents for
The Newfoundland Diaspora: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration, by Jennifer Delisle

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration

Part One: Defining the Newfoundland Diaspora

1 Newfoundland and the Concept of Diaspora

Part Two: Affective Responses

2 Donna Morrissey and the Search for Prairie Gold

3 "The 'Going Home Again' Complaint": Carl Leggo and Nostalgia for Newfoundland

Part Three: Is the Newfoundlander "Authentic" in the Diaspora?

4 E.J. Pratt and the Gateway to Canada

5 "A Papier Mâché Rock": Wayne Johnston and Rejecting Regionalism

Part Four: Imagining the Newfoundland Nation

6 "This Is Their Country Now": David French, Confederation, and the Imagined Community

7 Writing the "Old Lost Land": Johnston Part Two

Part Five: Postmodern Ethnicity and Memoirs from Away

8 Helen Buss / Margaret Clarke and the Negotiation of Identity

9 The "Holdin' Ground": David Macfarlane and the Second Generation

Conclusion: Writing in Diaspora Space

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Engaging with the literature of Newfoundland out-migration through the lens of diaspora theory this book argues that the concept of a Newfoundland diaspora has much to contribute both to Canadian literary studies and to current interdisciplinary definitions and theorizations of diaspora.

Jennifer Bowering Delisle completed her Ph.D. in English at the University of British Columbia in 2008. She has been a Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta and a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University. She has published widely on Canadian literature and diaspora, and is currently researching second-generation Canadian literature. She lives in Edmonton.