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Journal articles on the topic "FICTION/Family Saga/"
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Rui, Li. "THE FAMILY SAGA BY E. KOLINA (FROM THE NOVEL SAGA OF THE POOR GOLDMANS)." Sovremennye issledovaniya sotsialnykh problem 15, no. 1 (March 31, 2023): 53–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2077-1770-2023-15-1-53-73.
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Rationale. The study of genre specificity of fiction works of modern literature is important in connection with the actualization of domestic genres of mass literature. The name of saga genre is actively used by creators of women’s novels, in particular by E. Kolina. It seems necessary to examine the transformation of the attributes of the saga genre in the context of such novels.
Purpose. The article reveals the specificity of the family saga genre in E. Kolina’s novel The Saga of the Poor Goldmans.
Materials and methods. The material is a novel by E. Kolina The Saga of the Poor Goldmans (2007). In the framework of the family saga genre the analysis of the novel by E. Kolina was based on the method of narrative and theoretical analysis which was completed with the methods of psychoanalytic approach to the understanding of the main character’s specificity.
Results. The analysis of E. Kolina’s work showed the specifics of the saga genre in the novel The Saga of the Poor Goldmans. It was pointed out that E. Kolina’s saga does not always realize the traditional features of the genre, namely, historicism and equality of moral values in choosing characters’ life guidelines. It is shown that the image of home and family in the novel does not correspond to the principles of the genre, as home and family in the novel of E. Kolina’s novel no longer symbolizes the ancestral nest and strong family ties. The representation of the actual and retrospective image of the family in the novel is described. The motif of growing up in the novel is presented as the main one in highlighting the theme of childhood, realized in the motif of getting rid of teenage complexes based on envy of one sister to another.
Practical implications. The results of the analysis can be used to describe the genres of mass literature, as well as in pedagogical activities, in particular in the teaching of literary theory.
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Mai, Anne-Marie. "Märta Tikkanen’s gender and alcohol saga." Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 34, no. 4 (August 2017): 289–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1455072517720100.
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Märta Tikkanen’s poetry collection Århundradets kärlekssaga ( The love story of the century, 1978) is a confessional book on life in a family where the husband and father is an alcohol abuser. It is also a love story about a married couple who love one another despite the terrible challenges posed to the relationship by alcoholism. The poetry collection became one of the most influential books in contemporary Nordic fiction, its themes on gender roles and alcohol abuse setting the trend in the Nordic discussion of women’s liberation. Märta Tikkanen’s courage to tell her own private story inspired other women to confess their gender equality problems to the public. The alcohol abuse of Märta Tikkanen’s husband Henrik Tikkanen was seen as an allegory for the more general problems in the relation between men and women. My essay introduces Märta Tikkanen’s poetry collection and discusses how the poems develop the theme of gender and alcohol. I will also compare her description of their marriage with Henrik Tikkanen’s self-portrait in his autobiographical novella Mariegatan 26, Kronohagen (1977). The analysis refers to contemporary research on gender and alcohol abuse and discusses how the poems contribute to a public recognition of the relationship between gender and alcohol abuse. The essay discusses the reception of Märta Tikkanen’s influential poems and explores her treatment of alcohol and gender in relation to other Nordic confessional or fictional books on alcohol abuse.
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Ouyang, Wen-chin. "The Qur’an and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Fiction." Journal of Qur'anic Studies 16, no. 3 (October 2014): 62–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2014.0166.
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How is it possible to comprehend and assess the impact of the Qur’an on the literary expressions of the Hui Chinese Muslims, who have been integrated into Sinophone and China’s multicultural community since the third/ninth century, when the first ‘translations’ of the Qur’an in Chinese made by non-Muslims from Japanese and English appeared only in 1927 and 1931, and that by a Muslim from Arabic in 1932? This paper looks at the ways in which the Qur’an is imagined, then embodied, in literary texts authored by two prizewinning Chinese Muslim authors. Huo Da (b. 1945) alludes to the Qur’an in her novel The Muslim’s Funeral (1982), and transforms its teachings into ritual performances of alterity in her saga of a Muslim family at the turn of the twentieth century. Zhang Chengzhi (b. 1948) involves himself in reconstructing the history of the Jahriyya Ṣūfī sect in China between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries in his only historical novel, A History of the Soul (1991), and invents an identity for Chinese Muslims based on direct knowledge of the sacred text and tradition.
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Lim, Yiru. "Reviving the House of Fiction: John Banville’s Birchwood." Review of Irish Studies in Europe 3, no. 1 (October 24, 2019): 54–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.32803/rise.v3i1.2215.
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This paper examines the limits of postmodernist techniques and forms through a study of John Banville’s Birchwood (1973), a novel which can be said to overtly question the ‘tools’ a writer/artist has at his disposal to create meaning. Ostensibly about a family saga, the text is really an examination of how art can, and must, be sustained in the face of a dissolution of meaning embodied by the physical decay of Birchwood itself. Chronicling the passing of the era of the big house and yet choosing to remain within the crumbling remains is a clear indication of the artist’s commitment to creating fiction. Birchwood can be considered the first novel in Banville’s oeuvre in which such a position is clearly articulated. In the novel, Banville’s conscious subversion of modernist forms and devices, In addition to other tenets of Enlightenment thought and rationality, puts the limelight on the postmodern shift to ontological concerns and issues and is, as a consequence, a considered study of the act and possibility of writing in the face of such obstacles. The novel’s interrogation of the limits of metafiction and self-reflexivity, for example, and its acknowledgment of the constraints under which they are employed, paves a different way for an artist struggling to create coherence in the contemporary world.
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Šidáková Fialová, Alena. "Returning to the Past: The Germans as a Historical Trauma in Contemporary Czech Prose." Porównania 27, no. 2 (December 15, 2020): 59–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/por.2020.2.4.
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This study describes reflections of wartime and postwar historical trauma in contemporary Czech prose, taking into account the issues surrounding Central Europe, which entirely overlap with the traditional confrontation between the Czechs and Germans. It also includes the changing reflections on Germany and the Germans, the Second World War and the subsequent expulsion found in the prose work of the new millennium, the unifying topic being deemed to be the issue of the ambiguous national identification of the protagonists, the detabooization of previously hushed-up subjects and the subject of the Holocaust, particularly in the family saga genre. It also takes into account groups of texts focusing on reflections of anti-German resistance activities, both in the genre of the novel (with detective elements) and in output on the boundaries between fiction and factographic prose.
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Singh, Richa. "Book Review: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 10 (October 29, 2020): 82–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i10.10804.
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee is a saga of the trials and tribulations, joys and sorrows of a Korean family spanning from 1910 to 1989. Lee is a Korean-American author whose work engages with themes of the diasporic Korean identity. Pachinko was published in 2017 to critical acclaim and it was in the running for the National Book Award for Fiction.
Pachinko is a historical novel and its panoramic gaze encompasses twentieth century Korea giving us a terrifyingly real account of Korean society from the Japanese colonization of Korea to the Second World War. The Financial Times wrote in their review of the book: “We never feel history being spoon-fed to us; it is wholly absorbed into character and story, which is no mean feat for a novel covering almost a century of history.”
It is the first novel about Korean history and culture written for English language readers.
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Salnikova, E. V. "Algol. Tragedy of Power (1920) as Futuristic Peplum and the “Rehearsal” of Metropolis." Art & Culture Studies, no. 2 (June 2021): 286–321. http://dx.doi.org/10.51678/2226-0072-2021-2-286-321.
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The article is devoted to the recently found and restored film Algol. The Tragedy of Power (1920) by Hans Werckmeister, combining an adventurous beginning, fantasy, career history and family history. This is one of the earliest stories predicting the processes of globalization. The author examines the visual originality of the picture, which includes both expressionist scenes and out-of-style fragments, dwells in detail on some camera solutions. Analyzes the plot of the film, combining science and unscientific fiction with references to the series of novels (Rougon-Maccara by Zola, The Forsyte Saga by Galsworthy, Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann) and the myth of Faust. Along with the development of the image of the modern urban environment and the civilization of the future, the images of nature play an important role: nature, included in the technogenic civilization, and self-sufficient nature, which helps the rural working people to survive. The image of the main character, Robert Hern, performed by the outstanding German actor Emil Jannings, is examined in detail. The author reflects on the paradoxical connection between the fantastic world of the film and some motives of Peplum.
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Crehan, Stewart. "Nation, Voice, and Character in “the Great Zambian Novel”: A Critical Reading of The Old Drift." Research in African Literatures 53, no. 3 (September 2022): 82–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2022.a900035.
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ABSTRACT: Combining the objective voice of an omniscient narrator and the ironic “we” of a mosquito chorus, mixing “writerly” and “readerly” elements, The Old Drift (2019) adapts the family saga to a modern genealogical narrative of Zambia as a rainbow nation. A return to and settlement in an African “home” contrast thematically with the migratory, “Afropolitan” fiction of other African writers in the diaspora. Set largely in the capital city, as in recent novels by other Zambian women writers, the novel endorses a radical urban space. Yet its compacted, multilayered, subtle, allusive, and elliptical style, its copious range of characters and frequent shifts of place and time serendipitously woven into an intricate plot, come at a price. In Jamesonian terms, the “waning of affect” and postmodern “depthlessness” treat historical events as mediated simulations; they silence characters whose lack of inner life prevents empathy, prioritizes images and surfaces over internal feelings, and implicitly rejects the binarism of inner and outer. Thus revolution is a game played by a privileged few, since the struggle of the masses to overthrow an oppressive system is an unusable cliché.
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Stulov, Yuri V. "Contemporary African American Historical Novel." Literature of the Americas, no. 14 (2023): 75–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2023-14-75-99.
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The paper discusses the works of African American writers of the end of the 1960s — the end of the 2010s that address the historical past of African Americans and explores the traumatic experience of slavery and its consequences. The tragedy of people subjected to slavery as well as their masters who challenged the moral and ethical norms has remained the topical issue of contemporary African American historical novel. Pivotal for the development of the genre of African American historical novel were Jubilee by the outstanding writer and poet Margaret Walker and the non-fiction novel Roots by Alex Haley. African American authors reconsider the past from today’s perspective making use of both the newly discovered documents and the peculiarities of contemporary literary techniques and showing a versatility of genre experiments, paying attention to the ambiguity of American consciousness in relation to the past. Toni Morrison combines the sacred and the profane, reality and magic while Ishmael Reed conjugates thematic topicality and a bright literary experiment connecting history with the problems of contemporary consumer society; Charles Johnson problematizes history in a philosophic tragicomedy. Edward P. Jones reconsiders the history of slavery in a broad context as his novel’s setting is across the whole country on a broad span of time. The younger generation of African American writers represented by C. Baker, A. Randall, C. Whitehead, J. Ward and other authors touches on the issues of African American history in order to understand whether the tragic past has finally been done with. Contemporary African American historical novel relies on documents, new facts, elements of fictional biography, traditions of slave narratives and in its range makes use of peculiarities of family saga, bildungsroman, political novel, popular novel enriching it with various elements of magic realism, parodying existing canons and sharp satire.
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Bodyk, O. "WILLIAM FAULKNER՚S AUTHOR MYTH: SNOPESISM VS. THE AMERICAN DREAM." Vìsnik Marìupolʹsʹkogo deržavnogo unìversitetu Serìâ Fìlologìâ 16, no. 28 (2023): 7–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-3055-2023-16-28-7-23.
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The article presents an analysis of William Faulkner՚s authorial myth, with a particular focus on the concept of «Snopesism» in the context of the American dream. The aim is to clarify the nature of the mythological component of Faulkner՚s Yoknapatawpha trilogy as a system of perception of America՚s national identity in the context of globalization. The article seeks to determine the author՚s attitude towards the functioning of the myth of the American dream in the conditions of globalization, multiculturalism of American society, and the coexistence of national and global cultures, through the analysis of the true meaning and purpose of the concept of «Snopesism» in the Snopes saga. The analysis of the mythological discourse of Faulkner՚s Yoknapatawpha trilogy sheds light on the functions and role of mythology in the search for national self-identification in the conditions of globalization. Reading Faulkner՚s novels from the perspective of their mythological component holds theoretical significance for understanding the features of modern interpretation and perception of the most widespread and basic myths of the American nation. Faulkner modulates or ignores historical data, but the basic structure of history with three turning points (rise-fall-reconstruction) is evident in his novels. The rise represented the Old South, which Faulkner was nostalgic for, but he did not idealize the plantation myth or the plantation aristocracy. The fall is the Civil War and Reconstruction, which forms a watershed between the Old South and the post-war South of the Snopes and Popeyes. The New South is the third moment, with the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization, and racial and class segregation. Faulkner՚s portrayal of the New South is an artistic study of the emerging class – the Snopes family, who struggled to change their status after the Civil War and Reconstruction. The Snopes represent the white underclass that cared only about profit and status, and for whom the end justified any means. They work their way from a sharecropper՚s shack to the upper echelons of Jeffersonian society through a series of tricks, bravado, lies, fraud, theft, and law-breaking. The article analyses the philosophy of «Snopesism» through each representative of the Snopes family. The article argues that the southern tradition, with its rich arsenal of concepts and images, plays a key role in American society and fiction, defining the main content of moral values that influenced the formation of the national character of Americans. The mythology of the frontier, images of frontier heroes, pioneers, and people who carry out a civilizing mission is one of the elements of the Puritan epic in fiction. Another complex of national mythology is formed on the basis of the concept of the «American dream», which continues to define the features of the American way of life. These three mythological traditions constantly interact and intersect with each other, forming integral mythological images that reflect the peculiarities of American society, the nation, and national heroes. The increasing multiculturalism of American society and globalization significantly affect the nature and content of modern national mythology. However, traditional national myths continue to determine the main vectors of the country՚s national development. Ethnic mythology is transformed into the traditional key mythologemes of the USA. The article concludes that the study of Faulkner՚s novels from the perspective of their mythological component provides significant theoretical insights into the features of modern interpretation and perception of the most widespread and basic myths of the American nation. Keywords: William Faulkner, authorial myth, Yoknapatawpha, Snopes trilogy/saga, American dream, Snopesism, American literature of the South.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "FICTION/Family Saga/"
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Baxter, Tamara. "Rock Big and Sing Loud: Short Stories from Southern Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/alumni_books/31.
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The past decade has been an exciting time for American fiction in general and Southern Appalachian fiction in particular. Rock Big and Sing Loud by Tamara Baxter is a significant addition to this surge of new writing. Writing truly about the world of eastern Tennessee Baxter also writes about the world at large, about humanity. Her narratives can make you laugh or break your heart, and sometimes they do both at once. She has given us the stories of some of the most afflicted and addicted, the most failed and failing, individuals on the planet, and also some of the strongest and most enduring people we are ever likely to meet. These stories take us to places we did not expect to go, and just when we think we have seen what is strangest, most absurd, most alien and outrageous, we recognize something of ourselves. - Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek and Brave Enemieshttps://dc.etsu.edu/alumni_books/1021/thumbnail.jpg
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Labrude, Guillaume. "L'évolution des représentations de la famille dans la saga Batman, de 1939 à nos jours." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LORR0246.
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Le thème principal de cette thèse est l’évolution des représentations de la famille dans la saga Batman et ses différentes adaptations depuis sa création en 1939. En quoi la thématique familiale est-elle un terreau aussi fertile dans l’élaboration de la mythologie de cette licence mais aussi et surtout de ses dimensions patrimoniale et transmédiatique ? Pour répondre à cette problématique, les présents travaux se proposent d’analyser l’ensemble de la franchise au prisme des études culturelles, alliant l’herméneutique littéraire aux analyses graphiques, cinématographiques, sociologiques et psychanalytiques tout en replaçant les œuvres étudiées dans leur contexte historique. Cette thèse de doctorat se présente en deux parties distinctes : la première s’emploie à mettre en évidence les éléments canoniques de la franchise là où la seconde s’emploie à souligner les constantes, les évolutions et les itérations de ces éléments comme celui du drame familial à l’origine de la naissance du héros, son rapport avec sa famille de substitution mais aussi ses relations sentimentales et les éléments caractérisation qui le rapproche ou le différencie de ses antagonistesThis thesis is about the representations of the family in Batman, created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in 1939. Through the analysis of comic books, films, TV series and video games, these works have to answer the following questions: is the family subject a way to transform a comic book into a monument of American culture? Is it the key, or a way, to decline a vigilante story on different Medias, as Henry Jenkins wrote on The Matrix? Is Batman patrimonial because of its nature of human society mirror through the ages? In order to answer these questions, the franchise is analyzed through graphic and cinematic studies, sociology and psychanalysis. The first part of this thesis is about the different elements which characterize the saga and stay the same through ages. The second part deals with evolutions and iterations, based on these unchangeable elements
Books on the topic "FICTION/Family Saga/"
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Logan, Fay L. Georgianna: A Virginia family saga. Lawrenceville, Va: Brunswick Pub., 2000.
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O’Toole, Tess. "Narrative Jamming in the Family Saga." In Genealogy and Fiction in Hardy, 125–54. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230372184_5.
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Trenter, Cecilia. "Heritaging and the Use of History in Margit Sandemo’s The Legend of the Ice People." In History and Speculative Fiction, 203–24. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42235-5_11.
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AbstractThis chapter explores the use of heritage and history in the popular romance series The Legend of the Ice People (1982–1989) by Norwegian-Swedish author Margit Sandemo. The epos is the 47-volume multigenerational saga of a family. The series is here defined as a story world in which Sandemo is the creator, but fans are actively involved in collective negotiations. The use of the past within the series offers interpretations to readers, who are putting the old-fashion modes into up-to-date, concurrent, and contemporary understandings of morality by emerging from the historical past within the series.
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Parikh, Crystal. "Being Well." In Writing Human Rights. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816697069.003.0006.
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Considering the family romance and family saga as adapted in narrative fiction by Jhumpa Lahiri and Ana Castillo, in tandem with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Chapter Five argues for a conception of the right to health that recognizes embodied vulnerability as the core feature of human being.
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Woodward, Jennifer, and Peter Wright. "The Naismith Stratagem." In Biology and Manners, 249–68. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621730.003.0014.
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This chapter critically considers Genevieve Cogman’s Vorkosigan sourcebook for Steve Jackson Games’ tabletop Generic Universal Roleplaying System (GURPS). It examines how the sourcebook reframes Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan saga as an immersive environment through six key processes employed typically in TRPG adaptation: distillation, accentual emphasis, nomenclatural qualification, statistical quantification, ludic systematisation, and fictional gazetteering. The chapter assesses how the adaptation balances the requirements of the GURPS ruleset with the need to facilitate immersion in an authentic version of the saga, and analyses how Cogman preserves and adapts the novels to promote and sustain imaginative, immersive gameplay faithful to the saga’s structural, narrative, and shifting intergeneric qualities. The chapter further shows how the game allows players to immerse themselves in the saga; conceive, develop and enhance character types from the novels; and experience plots and story structures reflecting the unique tenor of Bujold’s work. In its emphases, the game reveals what it assumes to be the most appealing aspects of the books: its characterisation, relationships, locations, and the emotional immersion central to Bujold’s treatment of the science fictional family saga.
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Sadowski-Smith, Claudia. "Fictions of Irregular Post-Soviet Migration." In New Immigrant Whiteness. NYU Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479847730.003.0005.
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This chapter explores Sana Krasikov’s short story collection One More Year (2008) and Anya Ulinich’s novel Petropolis (2007) in order to develop a comparative approach to representations of irregular and unauthorized migration, a form of movement that has been largely identified with migrants from Mexico and Central America. The fiction by Krasikov and Ulinich represents ethnically and racially diverse protagonists from Russia, Georgia, and Uzbekistan, who arrive in the United States on nonimmigrant visas and become irregular or undocumented. These two works move beyond the themes of assimilation and family migration that dominated twentieth-century cultural productions by eastern European immigrants of Jewish descent, such as Mary Antin, Abraham Cahan, and Anzia Yezierska. Their work laid the foundation for a literature of assimilation to a middle-class white US racial identity that became fully available to European immigrants by the mid-twentieth century. The fiction by Krasikov and Ulinich emphasizes post-Soviet characters’ experiences of diminished access to the US labor market, residency, and citizenship rights, and thus positions itself in the larger context of contemporary US immigrant writing.
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Patten, Eve. "The Strange Death of Liberal England." In Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination, 70–97. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198869160.003.0003.
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Abstract Virginia Woolf provides a centrepiece for this book, and this chapter shows how the trajectory of her fictional oeuvre dovetails suggestively with the course of Irish history from the Home Rule crisis to the Civil War and into the formative years of Ireland’s independent statehood. In this temporal alignment, Woolf’s Irish references form a cryptic pattern of textual punctuation and interruption, her narrative allusions to Ireland providing a sideline commentary on her main theme: the post-war decline of English liberalism and the interwar rise of domestic patriarchy and international fascism. The chapter tracks Woolf’s Irish allusions from the early novel The Voyage Out to her late work The Years—a faux-historical family saga strung chronologically between the fall of Parnell and the ascendancy of de Valera, while also assessing the impact of her relationship with the Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen.
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McDonagh, Josephine. "Transported!" In Literature in a Time of Migration, 112–49. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192895752.003.0004.
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A shared interest in the practice of colonization as a form of predation and capture provides a surprising link between Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s writings about systematic colonization and Charlotte Brontë’s whimsical juvenile writings. Both present their ideas in fictional form, and their colonies as imaginative constructs. Wakefield’s theory, which was influential in shaping British colonial policy, involved transporting working-class families to Australia to establish a labour force within new settlements. To reinforce the difference between his scheme and that of chattel slavery, he emphasized the freedom of his workers. Yet his scheme entailed significant restraints of their personal liberties: their freedom of movement, association, and right to own property, as well as the requirement to marry and have children. Similar preoccupations are evident in an earlier episode in Wakefield’s biography, in which he kidnapped a young woman in order to marry her for her family’s wealth and prestige. Brontë, who was roughly the same age as Wakefield’s young victim, explores these themes explicitly in her own teenage accounts of a colony in Africa, Glass Town. Co-authored with her siblings, this intricate saga of conquest and settlement by a group of European explorers presents a juvenile commentary on contemporary colonial practices. It reveals the coercive violence within the colony, as well as the submerged erotic elements within it. It also shows the ways this same violence underpins fictional narratives, especially the marriage plots that Brontë develops in her mature works.