Memory, Identity, and the Poetics of Belonging
摘要
The final chapter brings together the historical and literary threads of the study, examining how Juan José Delaney and María Elena Walsh translate diasporic inheritance into acts of national remembrance. Through close readings of Tréboles del Sur and Cartas de la abuela Agnes (1872–1899), the chapter explores how both writers reconfigure private memory into collective ethics, transforming Irish-Argentine experience into a lens for Argentina’s post-dictatorial reflection. Drawing on frameworks of diaspora, cultural memory, and identity, it argues that these works transcend ethnic boundaries, offering narrative models for reimagining community after loss and silence. Both authors engage with the politics of memory not as recovery but as reparation—reclaiming fragments of marginalised histories to question who narrates the nation’s past. In their different idioms, Walsh and Delaney propose belonging as a dynamic and unfinished process, grounded in empathy, hybridity, and ethical responsibility. The chapter concludes that Irish-Argentine writing, far from peripheral, constitutes a vital archive for understanding Argentina’s democratic reawakening and its ongoing negotiation between memory, identity, and cultural plurality.