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Rome and Carthage: Figuring the Anglo-Dutch Wars
Facing each other across a contested sea, England and the Dutch Republic fought three wars at mid-century, just as Rome and Carthage fought the three...
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Rescuing the Widow Belge: Chivalry in the Construction of Elizabethan Englishness
The leaders of the Dutch Revolt used theories of contract to justify their abjuration of Philip II’s authority and appealed to foreign powers to help...
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England’s Thirst for News: Dutch News and the English Public Sphere
Significant changes in the production, circulation, and consumption of news occurred in the early modern period, as a public sphere developed. The...
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Margaret Dixon McDougall’s The Days of a Life (1883): an Irish-Canadian Perspective of the Repetitive Nature of Irish History
In 1881, at the height of the Irish Land War and shortly after the smaller-scale famine of 1879, Belfast-born Canadian journalist and author Margaret...
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Trying on a New Identity: Clothes, Coiffures, Cosmetics
While the last chapter got off the street and into the home, this chapter goes further inside, to the mirror: What did these publications demonstrate...
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As American Women: In America—on Main Street
This chapter deals with the attitudes of the various publications toward women in the broader American framework: not as Jews, but as women, going...
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Conclusion
The trajectory of this book began on the East Side, home to all of the publications in this book. It then discussed an issue common to all these...
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The Feminization of Jewish Holidays
Many of those writing in these publications advocated looking at Jewish holidays differently, switching the focus from men to women. These writers...
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Migration as Palimpsest: Introduction
A palimpsest is a parchment or tablet used one or more times after the earlier writing has been erased, although traces may still remain. The Greek...
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The Dystopian Imaginary, Climate Migration, and “Lifeboat-Nationalism”
This chapter examines the investment of ecocritical scholarship in what has been called an environmental apocalypticism and its implications for...
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“It Is Hard to Choose”: An Italian Author on Migration, Diaspora, African Literature, and the Limits of Labels
The work of the Italian author Igiaba Scego has been central to debates in Italy about colonialism, postcolonialism, racism, women’s writings, and...
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Melancholia of Migration in the Transnational Italian Imaginary
Proposing “migrant melancholia” as a theoretical framework that connects migration, memory, and melancholia, this chapter examines experimentation in...
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Another Home
This is a wide-ranging conversation between two old friends, writers Caryl Phillips and Pico Iyer, whose family life and work has been shaped by...
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Muslim Interpellation: Hijabs, Beards, and the Post-9/11 Border Regime
Post-9/11 visual and textual art representing the day-to-day lives of Muslims often reflects the condition of living within a global ideological...
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Introduction
What happens when we shift our attention from the progress of history to the movement of actual people? This is the question we set ourselves in...
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Migration, Forced Displacement, and Aesthetic Agency: Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Adas Raum
Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Adas Raum (Ada’s Room, 2021) complexly explores the significance as well as limits of the paradigm of migration for the project...
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A Border Poetics of Migration: Five Map**s of Migration Literature in Norwegian and Swedish
Borders and border-crossings of different kinds are central to narratives of migration. This chapter uses examples from Norwegian and...
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From Regional Remembrance to Transatlantic Heritage: The Transportability of Famine Memory in Fiction by Mary Anne Sadlier, Anna Dorsey, and Alice Nolan
This chapter examines Famine fiction by women writers who contributed extensively to the literary landscape of the Irish Famine diaspora: Mary Anne...
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Mary Harris “Mother” Jones and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Radical Women of the Irish Diaspora
This chapter presents Mary Harris “Mother” Jones (1837–1930) and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964) as articulators of a radical expression of the...
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Introduction
This introduction contextualizes the massive Irish Famine diaspora to the United States from the perspective of gender. What has so far been...