'A Sly Mid-Atlantic Appropriation’: Ireland, the United States and Transnational Fictions of Spain
Moynihan, S
Date: 15 October 2020
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
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Abstract
This chapter seeks to dislodge Irish America as the dominant referent in discussions of Irish
transnationalism and investigate a substantial tradition that positions Spain as an important
space in the Irish transnational imagination. The analysis is divided into two sections. The
first provides an overview of some of the existing ...
This chapter seeks to dislodge Irish America as the dominant referent in discussions of Irish
transnationalism and investigate a substantial tradition that positions Spain as an important
space in the Irish transnational imagination. The analysis is divided into two sections. The
first provides an overview of some of the existing and emerging critical voices relating to
Irish transnational fictions. It emphasizes the centrality of Irish America in extant discussions
of transnationalism and points to alternative ways of conceptualizing how Ireland’s cultural,
historical, economic, and environmental circumstances are enmeshed, literally and
imaginatively, with those of other spaces and places. The second part focuses on how Colm
Tóibín’s Brooklyn (2009) might be read in relation to Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle (1936)
and Maura Laverty’s No More Than Human (1944) as a work that re-routes the iconic Irish American transatlantic relationship through a much more capacious cis-Atlantic frame of
reference.
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