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Record Nr.

UNINA9910746087203321

Autore

Palacios Manuela <1959->

Titolo

Us & Them: Women Writers’ Discourses on Foreignness / / by Manuela Palacios

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Frank & Timme GmbH : , : Imprint : Frank & Timme, , 2023

ISBN

3-7329-8980-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 pages)

Collana

iBroLiT – Estudos Iberorrománicos de Literatura e Tradutoloxía. Ibero-Romance Studies in Literature and Translatology, , 2940-8407 ; ; 8

Disciplina

372.605

Soggetti

Literature

Feminism

Feminist theory

Emigration and immigration

Emigration and immigration - Social aspects

Feminism and Feminist Theory

Diaspora Studies

Sociology of Migration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Summary -- Discourses on Foreignness  by Irish and Galician Women Writers: An Introduction -- I. The Genres of Foreignness -- I.1.  Us &amp -- Them in Contemporary  Irish and Galician Poetry -- I.1.1.  Mirror Conversations:  Mary O'Donnell's Massacre of the Birds -- I.1.2. "Sisters of a trillion parasites": Alba Cid's Atlas -- I.1.3.  Correspondences -- I.2.  Us &amp -- Them in Contemporary  Irish and Galician Short Fiction -- I.2.1.  Englishness in Contemporary Irish Short Fiction -- I.2.2.  Nomadic Women in Galician Short Fiction -- I.2.3.  Correspondences -- I.3.  Us &amp -- Them in the Contemporary Irish and Galician Novel -- I.3.1.  "There is no 'us'":  Evelyn Conlon's Not the Same Sky -- I.3.2.  Two Foreigners Speaking the Same Language: Eva Moreda's A Veiga é como un tempo distinto -- I.3.3.  Correspondences -- I.4.  Us &amp -- Them in Contemporary  Irish and Galician Drama -- I.4.1.  Keeping the Barbarian at Bay:  Lorna Shaughnessy's The Sacrificial Wind -- I.4.2.  "On that difference is life



grounded":  Luz Pozo Garza's Medea en Corinto -- I.4.3  Correspondences -- II. Glocal Identities  in Translation -- III. Mixing Memory and Desire: Women Writers' Emigration  and Wanderlust -- Mixing Memory and Desire APPENDIX I -- Mixing Memory and Desire. APPENDIX II -- References -- Index.