(M)Others from the Motherland in Edna O’Brien’s <em>The Light of Evening</em> and Colm Tóibín’s <em>Brooklyn</em>
From the last decade, interest in the rewriting of received notions of the Irish diaspora and of the great famine in the literature produced in Ireland has notably increased, in an attempt to revise both Irish history and identity. Within this impulse in contemporary Irish literature, two enduring...
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Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2013-12-01
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Series: | Studi Irlandesi : a Journal of Irish Studies |
Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/7195 |