Irish Diasporic Literary Voices in South American Border Narratives

Abstract

This paper is part of a larger project that maps the Irish literary diaspora space in Argentina and Brazil. It is a reflection upon the recurring constitutive elements in the process of construction of an Irish- Argentine identity represented by the Irish diasporic voices of Juan José Delaney's narratives. The Irish immigration is one of the main concerns of the Irish-Argentine writer. Some of his short stories from Tréboles del Sur (1994) (Southern Shamrocks) and his first novel Moira Sullivan (1999) are analvsed here from a transcultural perspective.