“The best tradition of womanhood”: Negotiating and Reading Identities in Emma Donoghue’s Landing
This article reads Emma Donoghue's 2007 novel <em>Landing </em>as an intersectional romance. The novel's conflict emerges not only from the distance between the two lovers, the Irish flight attendant Síle and the Canadian curator Jude, but from several intersecting differences:...
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| description | This article reads Emma Donoghue's 2007 novel <em>Landing </em>as an intersectional romance. The novel's conflict emerges not only from the distance between the two lovers, the Irish flight attendant Síle and the Canadian curator Jude, but from several intersecting differences: gender identity, class, race, age, sexual orientation, and nationality. Specifically, this article lays out how Síle’s nationality and sexuality are compromised through invisibility, and unpacks how her race and gender contribute to this invisibility. While Jude is recognizably queer and Canadian, as a femme of colour Síle’s identity requires more explanation and affirmation. Through <em>Landing</em>, Emma Donoghue examines how Síle can find happiness without compromising her identity as an Irish racialized femme. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-46cb24d62b3c4d2bba4e46d6aa12c9792022-12-22T03:56:05ZengEdiciones Universidad de SalamancaCanada and Beyond2254-11792018-05-017010.33776/candb.v7i0.30613967“The best tradition of womanhood”: Negotiating and Reading Identities in Emma Donoghue’s LandingKaarina Mikalson0Dalhousie UniversityThis article reads Emma Donoghue's 2007 novel <em>Landing </em>as an intersectional romance. The novel's conflict emerges not only from the distance between the two lovers, the Irish flight attendant Síle and the Canadian curator Jude, but from several intersecting differences: gender identity, class, race, age, sexual orientation, and nationality. Specifically, this article lays out how Síle’s nationality and sexuality are compromised through invisibility, and unpacks how her race and gender contribute to this invisibility. While Jude is recognizably queer and Canadian, as a femme of colour Síle’s identity requires more explanation and affirmation. Through <em>Landing</em>, Emma Donoghue examines how Síle can find happiness without compromising her identity as an Irish racialized femme.http://www.uhu.es/publicaciones/ojs/index.php/CanadaBeyond/article/view/3061literatura canadienseliteratura irlandesaqueeramor romántico |
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| title | “The best tradition of womanhood”: Negotiating and Reading Identities in Emma Donoghue’s Landing |
| title_full | “The best tradition of womanhood”: Negotiating and Reading Identities in Emma Donoghue’s Landing |
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