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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Place of Literature in the Spaces of Belonging.
AU - Pearce, Lynne
N1 - RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : English Language and Literature
PY - 2002/8
Y1 - 2002/8
N2 - This article explores the different ways in which literary texts can help us negotiate our sense of 'home' and 'belonging' with respect to the complex intersection of our national, regional and gendered identities. Writing at a time when the map of Europe is being radically redrawn vis-a-vis the European Union (EU) and the future of the nation state, the author attempts to take us 'inside' the emotional and cognitive processes by which she, and other feminist colleagues, have struggled to produce a locational identity that is meaningful to them. As well as revealing the usefulness of national and regional literatures in this process, the article also shows how a 'strategic' use of autobiography can help mediate the complexity of our positioning.
AB - This article explores the different ways in which literary texts can help us negotiate our sense of 'home' and 'belonging' with respect to the complex intersection of our national, regional and gendered identities. Writing at a time when the map of Europe is being radically redrawn vis-a-vis the European Union (EU) and the future of the nation state, the author attempts to take us 'inside' the emotional and cognitive processes by which she, and other feminist colleagues, have struggled to produce a locational identity that is meaningful to them. As well as revealing the usefulness of national and regional literatures in this process, the article also shows how a 'strategic' use of autobiography can help mediate the complexity of our positioning.
KW - autobiography • feminist methodology • gender • identity politics • nation
U2 - 10.1177/1364942002005003065
DO - 10.1177/1364942002005003065
M3 - Journal article
VL - 5
SP - 275
EP - 291
JO - European Journal of Cultural Studies
JF - European Journal of Cultural Studies
SN - 1460-3551
IS - 3
ER -