<em>Star of the Sea</em>: Resistance and Adapted Homelands

Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea (2002) offers a nuanced depiction of the lifelong patterns of resistance of the Irish governess and Famine survivor, Mary Duane. Following Gayatri Spivak’s notions of the Other and of ‘wordling’ - the practice of the more powerful who seize their impressions of the...

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Main Author: Heather Levy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2019-06-01
Series:Studi Irlandesi
Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/7352