UCD Scholarcast - Series 4: Reconceiving the British Isles: The Literature of the Archipelago

Scholarcast 17: Professions of English diaspora


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In '"I have only one culture and it is not mine": Professions of English diaspora', Julian Wolfreys engages in acts of memory-work, to recover, through a focus on the voice as mnemotechnic and anamnesiac trace, the occluded and marginalized cultural differences of the regional English. Through a reflection on the work of the literary as archive and and the role folk song and folk culture play in the spectral maintenance of different Englishnesses over a thousand year period, Wolfreys argues that at a time when a national agenda for national identity is more urgently damaging than ever, turning to the embedded traces of different, pre-industrial pasts, offers modes of perception and representation that are based on equalities, rather than hierarchies of difference.
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UCD Scholarcast - Series 4: Reconceiving the British Isles: The Literature of the ArchipelagoBy PJ Mathews