Ex-sistere: Women's Mobility in Contemporary Irish, Welsh and Galician Literatures

Ex-sistere: Women's Mobility in Contemporary Irish, Welsh and Galician Literatures
ISBN-10
1443888397
ISBN-13
9781443888394
Category
Emigration and immigration in literature
Pages
230
Language
English
Published
2016-02-08
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Author
María Jesús Lorenzo-Modia

Description

This collection of critical essays addresses literary discourses on the mobility of women writers in various Atlantic regions of Europe. These literary systems (Ireland, Galicia, and Wales) experienced a rebirth in the second half of the twentieth century through their respective modern cultural artefacts, and the first decades of the present century have seen new research exploring emergent literatures in Europe, new European identities on the move, and even the dialogue between the various cultures of the Atlantic archipelago. This book centres on women writers and how they deal in their work with the issue of mobility. Authors and critics have tended to analyse travel by focusing on the transgression of patriarchal models of Western societies by white, middle-class women, these previously being mainly restricted to the private sphere, as well as on postcolonial issues with ethno- and Euro-centric slants. Notions of the construction of otherness are at stake here, in that even white women may be considered as belonging to a different ethnic group when they are migrants, thus showing how vulnerable and dependent women can be when isolated in a different environment. The narrative of history as progress may also be challenged in the twenty-first century by visions of nomadic women at risk of being displaced, both in their homeland and abroad.

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