(In)hospitable Narratives: Language Depropriation and Writing in Oona Frawley’s Flight
Set in Ireland in 2004, against the backdrop of the anti-immigrant sentiment that preceded the Citizenship Referendum, Flight, by Oona Frawley weaves the story of Sandrine—a young Zimbabwean woman who flies her country in search of a better future for herself and her family—into that of Tom and Clai...
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ILCEA
2023
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | Set in Ireland in 2004, against the backdrop of the anti-immigrant sentiment that preceded the Citizenship Referendum, Flight, by Oona Frawley weaves the story of Sandrine—a young Zimbabwean woman who flies her country in search of a better future for herself and her family—into that of Tom and Claire, an old Irish couple for whom she works as a carer. The novel engages directly with representations of migration and hospitality in contemporary Ireland by examining the complex ways in which political dimensions intersect with both linguistic and aesthetic paradigms. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s Monolingualism of the Other or the Prosthesis of Origin (Stanford, 1998) as well as on scholarly criticism that has scrutinised the politics and aesthetics of monolingualism, this chapter aims at exploring the ways in which Frawley’s Flight challenges the modern notion of “mother tongue” as a linguistic family romance. To a model based on the assumption that language is a form of property, intimately connected to kinship and motherhood, Flight seems to suggest new modes of writing and reading that explore language depropriation as a strategy to overcome hostile barriers and build new communities. |
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