Devolving Identities: Feminist Readings in Home and Belonging

ISBN-13: 9780754600749 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 256 str.

Lynne Pearce

Opis

Feminist scholars explore their personal negotiations of gender, class, ethnicity and national or regional identity through their readings of two literary and cultural texts. The collection centres on the ontological experience of reading and writing as a feminist, and combines the discussion of texts which are inscribed - whether consciously or unconsciously - with the academics' own struggle to reconcile their roots with their current situations or identities.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Devolution and the politics of re/location, Lynne Pearce; ’The Undeveloped Heart’: Forster, Pym and the English South, Hilary Hinds; The debateable land: Ellis Island immigration museum, Margaret Elphinstone’s A Sparrow’s Flight and Border Readings, Alison Easton; A refusal of belonging: I don’t want your straight nation, Wren Sidhe; Traversing Britain: mobility, belonging and home, Ruth McElroy; Putting myself in her place: identity, identification and Irishness in Nuala O’Faolain’s Are you Somebody? and Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, Sinead McDermott; ’Lost Voices, and Fresh Perspectives’: Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners and Candia McWilliam’s Debatable Land, Flora Alexander; ’We’re coming home’: accent(uat)ing nostalgia in Kathleen Jamie’s Autonomous Region and Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey, Rachel Dyer; Driving North / Driving South: reflections upon the spatial/temporal co-ordinates of ’home’, Lynne Pearce; ’I going away, I going home’: mixed ’race’, movement and identity, Charlotte Williams; Highland Lines: the production and imagining of Highland Scotland 1803-1999, Helen Boden; Learning to remember and remembering to forget: Beloved from Belfast, Eilish Rooney; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Lynne Pearce