For August we are putting a spotlight on Mobility and Migration in our books, journals, and digital collections.
Female Francophone Aesthetics of Exile: In discussion with Antonia Wimbush
Author Antonia Wimbush offers an insight into issues of belonging, geographical mobility and the self in contemporary autofictional literature.
Ireland, Migration and Return Migration – In Conversation with Sinéad Moynihan
Drawing on literary, historical and cultural studies perspectives, Sinéad Moynihan's Ireland, Migration and Return Migration examines the phenomenon of the “Returned Yank” in the cultural imagination. Taking as its point of departure The Quiet Man (1952), it provides a cultural history that charts the ways in which the Returned Yank indexes a set of recurring anxieties in … Continue reading