| A Book of Migrations Contributor(s): Solnit, Rebecca (Author) |
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ISBN: 1859841864 ISBN-13: 9781859841860 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $21.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1998 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Travel and history intermingle in this elegant reflection on identity and memory. In her journey through Ireland, author Rebecca Solnit portrays in microcosm a history made up of great tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism, and tourism. Her observations carve a new route through Ireland's history, literature, and landscape. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Ireland - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
| Dewey: 914.15 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.12" W x 7.75" (0.47 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Ireland - Ethnic Orientation - Irish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Strangely positioned between Europe and the post-colonial world, Ireland occupies a fluid and contradictory space, not least in the memory or imagination of its many emigrants. In this exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit returns to Ireland, armed with a newly-acquired passport - courtesy of otherwise forgotten maternal ancestors. Her journey is not to find a stable identity in ancestral roots, but to confront notions of stability, identity, ethnicity and nationalism in one of their great mythic sources. |