Alias Grace
barbara
British devolution
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Conferred
cultural criticism
Daphne Du Maurier
debatable
Debatable Land
Devolve UK
Dinas Powys
Drawn Back
Ellis Island
Ellis Island Immigration Museum
elspeth
Elspeth Probyn
english
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feminist perspectives on home
Gaelic
Gaelic Medium Education
gender studies
Grace Marks
Grace's Narrative
Howards End
Independent Woman
intersectionality
land
literature
Loch Lomond
lolly
Margaret Elphinstone
national belonging
Nira
Piper
probyn
pym
regional identity
Scottish Womens Writing
Vice Versa
Welsh Women
Welsh Women's Writing
willowes
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754600749
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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There is no doubt that the political and cultural map of Europe is in the process of being radically redrawn. Alongside the major upheavals in continental Europe, the British Isles has undergone far-reaching constitutional reform. In Devolving Identities, 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'. This book's focus on the overlapping of gender and national or regional identity is a direct response to the devolution movements currently active in the British Isles. The contributors are drawn from Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Ireland, Northern Ireland and selected regions of England. In its complex engagement of subject and text and its political insistence that we no longer consider key aspects of 'identity' in isolation, this volume presents a truly state-of-the-art investigation of (a) what it means to be 'regionally defined' and (b) how the complexity of our positioning in terms of class, gender and nation impacts upon our practice as literary and cultural critics.
Lynne Pearce, University of Lancaster, UK Lynne Pearce, Hilary Hinds, Alison Easton, Wren Sidhe, Ruth McElroy, Sinead McDermott, Flora Alexander, Rachel Dyer, Charlotte Williams, Helen Boden, Eilish Rooney.
