A Woman Leaving Twice to Arrive: The Journey as Quest for a Gendered Diasporic Identity in Anne Devlin’s After Easter
| Autor: | Maria Kurdi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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lcsh:Language and Literature
Cultural Studies General Arts and Humanities Trope (literature) media_common.quotation_subject Gender Identity (social science) Northern Ireland Art Diasporic identity Journey as quest Northern ireland Diaspora Exile lcsh:DA1-995 lcsh:P Storytelling Other lcsh:History of Great Britain Humanities media_common Drama |
| Zdroj: | Estudios Irlandeses, Vol 5, Iss 5, Pp 58-67 (2010) |
| ISSN: | 1699-311X |
| DOI: | 10.24162/ei2010-2270 |
| Popis: | espanolEn la actualidad, las cuestiones conjuntas de vivir en la frontera de culturas y responder a las presiones que emergen al realizar la necesaria reformulacion de identidades son tratadas en un creciente numero de obras literarias. El objeto de este trabajo es After Easter de Anne Devlin, un drama que utiliza el tropo del viaje para fusionar las presiones de la vida en el exilio con las narrativas de genero, raza y tension generacional. Mi analisis explora como Greta, en busca de una nueva identidad de diaspora, logra reinterpretar imagenes y discursos conflictivos al tiempo que los confronta al revisitar su pais de origen, una Irlanda del Norte atormentada por el conflicto armado. Al final de su viaje ella es capaz de inventar su propia historia, entremezclando cuestiones de origen y continuidad, amor por la madre(patria) asi como por el Otro, y mediante este proceso reconstruir su identidad como una emigrante segura de si misma. EnglishNowadays the joint themes of living at the borderland of cultures and responding to the pressures which emerge during the necessary re-formation of identity are treated in an increasing number of literary works. The subject of the present paper is Anne Devlin�s After Easter, a drama which uses the trope of the journey to fuse the constraints of exilic existence with narratives of gender, race and generational tension. My analysis explores how Greta, questor of a new diasporic identity, manages to reinterpret conflicting images and discourses as she confronts them on revisiting her original home country, Troubles-ridden Northern Ireland. By the end of the journey she is able to invent her own story, intertwining concerns of origin and continuity, love of the mother(land) as well as of the Other, and through that she re-constructs her identity as a self-assured migrant. |
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