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| Titre : | Review article : Personal narratives of emigration and adjustment (2008) |
| Auteurs : | Donald M. MACRAILD, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol 36 n 141 2008) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 91-94 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | The volumes under review here Annie O'Donnell's series of letters to her future husband, and the autobiography of the minor writer and nationalist political activist, Joseph Keating take narratives as raw materials and frame them, and theirs authors, within the story of exodus. Each text has its own internal logic. Keating's life was written as a complete narrative, and consciously so though it ends in 1916, many years before the end of his life and public activities. Annie O'Donnell's letters cover just three years of her life before she was finally united with her husband for the rest of her years. Both texts are introduced by scholarly, contextual essays, each of which deftly weaves together the wider currents of migration history and the more general context, without which the narratives cannot be properly understood. The writings of these two very different types of emigrant offer interesting insights into their authors' lives and times |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Donald M. MacRaild |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
