On the Margins of Memory

Recovering the Migrant Voice
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84718-436-8
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 119 Seiten

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This volume is, in part, an attempt to give a “voice” or a “platform” to communities who have frequently found themselves on the margins of the so-called “mainstream” community - the hidden Irish, the hidden European, the nomad and the migrant who reflects the changing face of the “new” and “immigrant” Europe. The essays in this collection explore the image of the nomad, migrant and the outsider/“Other” Traveller/Gypsy, within the frame of articulation that is European representational and visual culture. One of the remarkable coherences which exists between the figure of the “traditional” nomadic Traveller or Gypsy in the public imaginary –whether this be in the form of imagistic or literary production – is its strangely symbiotic relationship with current ongoing developments in visual culture and the global flows of cultural diaspora that are the “norm” in the modern world. These essays display the representational function of the Traveller/Gypsy or migrant as an exemplar of that which overcomes spatial/temporal distance and separation, thereby creating innovative opportunities for the exploration of issues relating to cross-cultural and identity representation. The artists and academics writing in this volume are exploring a new energy in modern culture, one which seeks an innovative and exciting re-positioning of the panorama that is dominance and resistance within the postcolonial cultural discourse of the present-day.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ó hAodha, Mícheál

Über Autor(innen)

Ó hAodha, Mícheál
Dr. Mícheál Ó hAodha (Michael Hayes) works as a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He has published widely on the literature and social history of marginal groups in Ireland including the Irish Travellers and other migrant peoples. His books include The Candlelight Painter (2004), Parley-Poet and Chanter (2004) and Irish Travellers: Representations and Realities (2006. The former two books are the only first-hand ethnographic accounts of Irish Traveller life from the perspective of Irish Traveller men since Séan Maher's autobiography - The Road to God Knows Where (1972). In addition to the representation and history of migration, Mícheál also has interests in nationalism in a postcolonial context, the subaltern and diaspora identities. His most recent book is Road Memories: Aspects of Migrant History (2006).

Dr. Mícheál Ó hAodha (Michael Hayes) works as a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He has published widely on the literature and social history of marginal groups in Ireland including the Irish Travellers and other migrant peoples. His books include The Candlelight Painter (2004), Parley-Poet and Chanter (2004) and Irish Travellers: Representations and Realities (2006. The former two books are the only first-hand ethnographic accounts of Irish Traveller life from the perspective of Irish Traveller men since Séan Maher's autobiography - The Road to God Knows Where (1972). In addition to the representation and history of migration, Mícheál also has interests in nationalism in a postcolonial context, the subaltern and diaspora identities. His most recent book is Road Memories: Aspects of Migrant History (2006).